Outlook Address Book Display Name Suggestion

[Guest]

From we users perspective, Microsoft appears to have gone out of their way to make the act of selecting an email address in Outlook as difficult as possilbe. The developement team appears to have designed Outlook 2003 to completely ignore the display name as a means of selecting the proper email. When a contact has multiple email and fax addresses users must move the slider at the bottom of the "select names, name window" over for each and every message recipient. The reason is because the Select Names window was made so that it could not be resized. We really don't need to purchase slipstick or the work involved in a kludge workaround that requires us to "disguise" fax numbers, users just need the ability to resize the Select Names window

Why not spend a few hours of your programmer's time creating a patch so that the Outlook Select Names window can be resized to be viewed, as well as so that Display Names or Email Addresses can be the left most view in the existing window. Like it stands, this is an enormous amount of wasted time for Outlook users.

This problem is far worse than it once was was before because with previous versions of Outlook, when an email address was selected and a user needed to know if it was actually an email address he/she could view the properties. With Office 2003 what comes up is the entire actual contact, which gives no clues to property

Roy...

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Ummm.... Outlook 2003 addressed this very issue by _allowing_ you to resize
the Outlook Address Book. Are you sure that's what you are using? You are
describing Outlook 2002.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

From we users perspective, Microsoft appears to have gone out of their way

to make the act of selecting an email address in Outlook as difficult as
possilbe. The developement team appears to have designed Outlook 2003 to
completely ignore the display name as a means of selecting the proper email.
When a contact has multiple email and fax addresses users must move the
slider at the bottom of the "select names, name window" over for each and
every message recipient. The reason is because the Select Names window was
made so that it could not be resized. We really don't need to purchase
slipstick or the work involved in a kludge workaround that requires us to
"disguise" fax numbers, users just need the ability to resize the Select
Names window.

Why not spend a few hours of your programmer's time creating a patch so

that the Outlook Select Names window can be resized to be viewed, as well as
so that Display Names or Email Addresses can be the left most view in the
existing window. Like it stands, this is an enormous amount of wasted time
for Outlook users.

This problem is far worse than it once was was before because with

previous versions of Outlook, when an email address was selected and a user
needed to know if it was actually an email address he/she could view the
properties. With Office 2003 what comes up is the entire actual contact,
which gives no clues to property.