How to copy email addresses in Outlook 2003?

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When I open an email, select the addresses in the To or CC lines, hit
Copy, then Paste, it doesn't work... it discards the important part (the
email address) and preserves only the fluff part (the "human-readable"
name of the person).

Is there a way to make it copy and paste exactly what I select instead
of guessing (wrongly) what I want?

I found somebody with a similar problem

<http://forums.techguy.org/web-email/211300-how-does-one-cut-paste.html>

but no solution there.

Thanks!
 
timeOday said:
When I open an email, select the addresses in the To or CC lines, hit
Copy, then Paste, it doesn't work... it discards the important part
(the email address) and preserves only the fluff part (the
"human-readable" name of the person).

Is there a way to make it copy and paste exactly what I select instead
of guessing (wrongly) what I want?
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Paste to where? If you paste it to the recipient field of another mail
message, it will be fine. If you paste it to, say, a Word document, only
the characters you see will be pasted. The properties won't
 
Brian said:
Paste to where? If you paste it to the recipient field of another mail
message, it will be fine. If you paste it to, say, a Word document,
only the characters you see will be pasted. The properties won't
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All the characters I want (specifically the email address) are visible
and selected when I hit "Copy" in Outlook. Yet they aren't copied to
the clipboard.
 
timeOday said:
All the characters I want (specifically the email address) are visible
and selected when I hit "Copy" in Outlook. Yet they aren't copied to
the clipboard.
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Got an example?
 
Brian said:
Got an example?
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I just noticed, Outlook doesn't even show the email address for people
in my company (which are presumably in my address book automatically,
though they are not in my Contacts list). I would rather it showed
their email instead, but since it only shows their name I would only
expect "copy" to get what I can see.

The stranger case, and what I was originally referring to, is for emails
from outside my company. These *do* show the full email address in the
"To" entry of a new email when I hit "Reply". It appears to be a
normal edit box, but it won't allow me to select only the email address;
you can only select the whole address including both the
"human-readable" name and the email address. The problem is when I copy
and paste it, *only* the human readable name is copied over; the email
address is omitted.
 
timeOday said:
I just noticed, Outlook doesn't even show the email address for people
in my company (which are presumably in my address book automatically,
though they are not in my Contacts list).
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They're probably in the GAL, if you're using Exchange.
I would rather it showed
their email instead, but since it only shows their name I would only
expect "copy" to get what I can see.
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So would I.
The stranger case, and what I was originally referring to, is for
emails from outside my company. These *do* show the full email
address in the "To" entry of a new email when I hit "Reply".
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But how is this address presented? Is it "Name <address>" or "Name
(address)"
 
They're probably in the GAL, if you're using Exchange.


So would I.


But how is this address presented?  Is it "Name <address>" or "Name
(address)"
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Hi Brian,

I'm having the same problem so I can answer your question. In the
original message, the names are simply presented as "Name", they don't
display the address, it's "hidden". If you double-click on each Name,
then you get the standard "properties" dialog box with one field for
"displayed name" and another for "email address".

If you forward this message, the header keeps only the names and the
email addresses are lost. You have to ask the person who forwarded
the message for them.

But here's where it gets juicy; if you reply-to-all in this message,
you then see all email addresses in form "Name <address>", as you
would expect, but STILL if you copy and paste, it copies only the
name.

This is extremely frustrating as I deal with different email addresses
often in my workday, and I appreciate your help.

Best regards,
Marco Zingaro
 
hi, so this problem remain unsolved.

Today after 3 years from this Thread, I am writing to acknowledge that I need those email address from outlook that i sent once using outlook and now in another program e.g. Gmail, but it would only copy screen text and not the email @ addresses.

regards,
 
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