Vcard

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Mieke

Outlook is not opening my .vcf (Vcard) files. When I tried associating the
files to Outlook, when they are opened the come open not as a Vcard, but as
a Vcalendar. Does anyone have any suggestions? Right now the Vcards are
being opened by Address book.

Thanks
 
Make sure Outlook is the default contactlist handler;
Control Panel-> Internet Options-> tab Programs

The Folder Options for vcf must be set like this (double check your path to
Outlook.exe);
"C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\OFFICE11\OUTLOOK.EXE" /v "%1"

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Application; Outlook
Topic; System

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I did all of that Roady, thanks but I made a mistake in telling you that it
opened as if it was a calendar, in fact, it opens as though it is an
attachment in an email message. I'm still having the problem.

Do you have any other suggestions, I used to be able to do this all the
time. I send any changes from my work contact list to my home computer this
way.

Thanks again.

Cleffnote
 
If you rightclick the file what actions do you have?

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PMJI, but this sounds like you didn't get a vCard .vcf file at all, but that
you sent a regular contact item without setting the
message format to rich-text. Maybe you could try again, using the Forward as
vCard command this time.
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