How do I change how the e-mail looks in contacts?

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Some contacts email use have full name display, others the e-mail address.
How do I standardize the e-mail diplay in contacts?
 
You can't. Each version of Outlook has done this differently and the format
is not subject to end user control. In Outlook 2002 and 2003 you can
change/edit the Display As field individually for each Contact, but you
can't change the default format Outlook gives the field.
 
I'm not sure that I understand this answer. What good is the Display As
field if it doesn't do what you ask? If you for example put an email
address in the e-mail field, but want it to display by first name only, it
doesn't always work. Is the Display as field not working as one would
think?

Russ Valentine said:
You can't. Each version of Outlook has done this differently and the format
is not subject to end user control. In Outlook 2002 and 2003 you can
change/edit the Display As field individually for each Contact, but you
can't change the default format Outlook gives the field.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
BcolMpar said:
Some contacts email use have full name display, others the e-mail address.
How do I standardize the e-mail diplay in contacts?
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I'll turn the question around.
What is it that you need the Display As field to do? What are you trying to
accomplish?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
sweetmans said:
I'm not sure that I understand this answer. What good is the Display As
field if it doesn't do what you ask? If you for example put an email
address in the e-mail field, but want it to display by first name only, it
doesn't always work. Is the Display as field not working as one would
think?

Russ Valentine said:
You can't. Each version of Outlook has done this differently and the
format
is not subject to end user control. In Outlook 2002 and 2003 you can
change/edit the Display As field individually for each Contact, but you
can't change the default format Outlook gives the field.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
BcolMpar said:
Some contacts email use have full name display, others the e-mail
address.
How do I standardize the e-mail diplay in contacts?
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
Well, I think you may have addressed in a similar previous question, but I'm
not sure. I just want to be able to type a person's first name in the To:
field and have the contact information display the text that I typed in the
display name field of the contact.....not with the entire e-mail address
following it. The strange thing, is that it isn't consistent. For some
contacts it will do this, and for others it displays the display name and the
e-mail address following. It just doesn't seem at all consistent in what it
is doing which is really annoying.

Russ Valentine said:
I'll turn the question around.
What is it that you need the Display As field to do? What are you trying to
accomplish?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
sweetmans said:
I'm not sure that I understand this answer. What good is the Display As
field if it doesn't do what you ask? If you for example put an email
address in the e-mail field, but want it to display by first name only, it
doesn't always work. Is the Display as field not working as one would
think?

Russ Valentine said:
You can't. Each version of Outlook has done this differently and the
format
is not subject to end user control. In Outlook 2002 and 2003 you can
change/edit the Display As field individually for each Contact, but you
can't change the default format Outlook gives the field.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Some contacts email use have full name display, others the e-mail
address.
How do I standardize the e-mail diplay in contacts?
Click to expand...
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Indeed, it is not consistent.
What appears in the To: field varies greatly according to the precise method
by which you are
entering the address, your Outlook version, your information store, whether
you are replying or starting a new message, and whether you are using
autocompletion or autoresolution.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
sweetmans said:
Well, I think you may have addressed in a similar previous question, but
I'm
not sure. I just want to be able to type a person's first name in the To:
field and have the contact information display the text that I typed in
the
display name field of the contact.....not with the entire e-mail address
following it. The strange thing, is that it isn't consistent. For some
contacts it will do this, and for others it displays the display name and
the
e-mail address following. It just doesn't seem at all consistent in what
it
is doing which is really annoying.

Russ Valentine said:
I'll turn the question around.
What is it that you need the Display As field to do? What are you trying
to
accomplish?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
sweetmans said:
I'm not sure that I understand this answer. What good is the Display
As
field if it doesn't do what you ask? If you for example put an email
address in the e-mail field, but want it to display by first name only,
it
doesn't always work. Is the Display as field not working as one
would
think?

:

You can't. Each version of Outlook has done this differently and the
format
is not subject to end user control. In Outlook 2002 and 2003 you can
change/edit the Display As field individually for each Contact, but
you
can't change the default format Outlook gives the field.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Some contacts email use have full name display, others the e-mail
address.
How do I standardize the e-mail diplay in contacts?
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