v-card not complete when emailing

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Your question is hard to understand. I'll take a stab at it.
Don't open the contact, just highlight it and go to the top menu bar, click
"forward". This will open the email dialoge and send the vcard you
highlighted to somebody (you fill in the To: address).
 
Dennis; this isnt a reponse or astute answer... the fact is that i cant figure out how to start a new question or thread so this is as far as i got. Maybe somebody reading your thread (which is similar to my problem) will answer mine.

Here is mine: I created a nice V-card with a photo, all three of my email addresses and all my home and office and cell phone numbers... looks good when i view it in MS outlooks contacts, however, when I attached it to my automatic email signature via tools, options, mail format, signatures and mail it to myself, the v card comes through in the attachment section but has no photo and only my first email address. I would also like to get rid of the other fields in the contact form that i use as my v-card (e.g. auto-logging of emails and documents regarding my contact) but dont know how to do that. HELP!!!!!
 
You're confusing vCards with Outlook contacts. They are not the same thing.
A vCard is a text file using a particular format for interoperability among
the different programs that support the vCard standard. It cannot contain
photos, and the Outlook implementation does not put into the vCard all the
information that the Outlook contact can store. It is possible to manually
edit the .vcf file stored in your Signatures folder, using Notepad. See
http://www.imc.org/pdi/ for details on the vCard standard and the data
fields it supports.

To start a new topic thread in the newsgroup web interface at
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...crosoft.public.outlook.contacts&lang=en&cr=US,
click the New button, just below the Search For box and above the list of
posts.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers



Steff-Malaysia said:
Dennis; this isnt a reponse or astute answer... the fact is that i cant
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figure out how to start a new question or thread so this is as far as i got.
Maybe somebody reading your thread (which is similar to my problem) will
answer mine.
Here is mine: I created a nice V-card with a photo, all three of my email
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addresses and all my home and office and cell phone numbers... looks good
when i view it in MS outlooks contacts, however, when I attached it to my
automatic email signature via tools, options, mail format, signatures and
mail it to myself, the v card comes through in the attachment section but
has no photo and only my first email address. I would also like to get rid
of the other fields in the contact form that i use as my v-card (e.g.
auto-logging of emails and documents regarding my contact) but dont know
how to do that. HELP!!!!!
 
Thanks Sue;

You alllllllllmost answered the full query. I now understand that the vcard is a text file and phots etc... would not show up (although I dont understand why the 2nd and 3rd email nos. don't). having said that, when trying to attach a "V card" of sorts, or in the alternate, an Outlook contact "vcard" that would show all the information in my contact box, how do I do that?. When I go to my outlook Tools-Options-Mail format-Signatures-Edit window, it only allows me to add a Vcard or "none". Please advise as to how i can auto send a Vcard with all the details and photo. Please reply, if you would, to my email (e-mail address removed) if you would. thanks much for your help. Please dont take offense, i would jsut die if i didn't have outlook to take care of my aging brain.

Stephan Agnitsch
the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog
 
You can attach an Outlook contact item (i.e. not a vCard) only to messages
sent in rich-text format, not to those sent in HTML or plain text format. To
add such a contact to your RTF signature, you would open the .rtf file in
the Signatures folder (see http://www.slipstick.com/config/backup.htm for
file locations) and then drag the contact from Outlook to the place in the
signature where you want it to appear. You would also need to adjust the
settings in Tools | Options | Mail Format | INternet Format to make sure
that OUtlook sends RTF when you compose in RTF.

Note that only Outlook users to whom you send in RTF will be able to open
the contact attachment. Everyone else that you send to in RTF will get an
annoying Winmail.dat file. Even the Outlook users may not be thrilled about
getting a contact attachment. I'd recommend against going this route and
stick to a simple vCard attachment.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers



Steff-Malaysia said:
Thanks Sue;

You alllllllllmost answered the full query. I now understand that the
Click to expand...
vcard is a text file and phots etc... would not show up (although I dont
understand why the 2nd and 3rd email nos. don't). having said that, when
trying to attach a "V card" of sorts, or in the alternate, an Outlook
contact "vcard" that would show all the information in my contact box, how
do I do that?. When I go to my outlook Tools-Options-Mail
format-Signatures-Edit window, it only allows me to add a Vcard or "none".
Please advise as to how i can auto send a Vcard with all the details and
photo. Please reply, if you would, to my email (e-mail address removed) if you
would. thanks much for your help. Please dont take offense, i would jsut die
if i didn't have outlook to take care of my aging brain.
 
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