How can you change the background design/color for the selected business
cards together, instead of opening each and double clicking it's design?
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FARAZ A. QURESHI

AFAIK, there is no way to do this. I'm not sure about the possibilities in
doing this programmatically. You mind get an answer for that in the
developers newsgroup; outlook.program_vba

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Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.howto-outlook.com/
Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more

http://www.msoutlook.info/
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"FARAZ QURESHI" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:94E58BFA-CAFD-4D80-A8A9-(E-Mail Removed)...
> How can you change the background design/color for the selected business
> cards together, instead of opening each and double clicking it's design?
> --
> Best Regards,
> FARAZ A. QURESHI

Thanx Roady,

However, any idea how to customize a view of business cards? For example I
need every card to be showing Mobile/Cell # first and then the field of
postal address and email address in the end?

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Best Regards,
FARAZ A. QURESHI


"Roady [MVP]" wrote:

> AFAIK, there is no way to do this. I'm not sure about the possibilities in
> doing this programmatically. You mind get an answer for that in the
> developers newsgroup; outlook.program_vba
>
> --
> Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
> Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
> http://www.howto-outlook.com/
> Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more
>
> http://www.msoutlook.info/
> Real World Questions, Real World Answers
>
> -----
>
> "FARAZ QURESHI" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:94E58BFA-CAFD-4D80-A8A9-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > How can you change the background design/color for the selected business
> > cards together, instead of opening each and double clicking it's design?
> > --
> > Best Regards,
> > FARAZ A. QURESHI
>
>

You can manually do this by right clicking on the card and then choose Edit
Business Card but I guess you already knew that.
AFAIK there is no way to set a template for this or save a custom template
which you then apply to an existing contact.

A thing that you can do for new contacts is that you create a vcf-file and
then create the business card that you want. When you enter a new contact,
you double click on that vcf-file and enter the contact details and then
save it to Outlook.

The original intention of the Business Card design was that you receive them
from others and distribute your own. In that (perfect world) scenario there
wouldn't be any need for you to have to do it manually on your own contacts.
Perhaps we'll see a bit more flexibility of the feature in the next version
of Outlook ;-)

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Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.howto-outlook.com/
Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more

http://www.msoutlook.info/
Real World Questions, Real World Answers

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"FARAZ QURESHI" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:B422CE3A-AC9D-4D48-98CA-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Thanx Roady,
>
> However, any idea how to customize a view of business cards? For example I
> need every card to be showing Mobile/Cell # first and then the field of
> postal address and email address in the end?
>
> --
>
> Best Regards,
> FARAZ A. QURESHI
>
>
> "Roady [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> AFAIK, there is no way to do this. I'm not sure about the possibilities
>> in
>> doing this programmatically. You mind get an answer for that in the
>> developers newsgroup; outlook.program_vba
>>
>> --
>> Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
>> Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
>> http://www.howto-outlook.com/
>> Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more
>>
>> http://www.msoutlook.info/
>> Real World Questions, Real World Answers
>>
>> -----
>>
>> "FARAZ QURESHI" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:94E58BFA-CAFD-4D80-A8A9-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> > How can you change the background design/color for the selected
>> > business
>> > cards together, instead of opening each and double clicking it's
>> > design?
>> > --
>> > Best Regards,
>> > FARAZ A. QURESHI
>>
>>

"Roady [MVP]" wrote:

> You can manually do this by right clicking on the card and then choose Edit
> Business Card but I guess you already knew that.
> AFAIK there is no way to set a template for this or save a custom template
> which you then apply to an existing contact.
>
> A thing that you can do for new contacts is that you create a vcf-file and
> then create the business card that you want. When you enter a new contact,
> you double click on that vcf-file and enter the contact details and then
> save it to Outlook.
>
> The original intention of the Business Card design was that you receive them
> from others and distribute your own. In that (perfect world) scenario there
> wouldn't be any need for you to have to do it manually on your own contacts.
> Perhaps we'll see a bit more flexibility of the feature in the next version
> of Outlook ;-)

Well lets hope so pal! Thanx a lot :-)

It was quite an XClent advice never even had that idea of right clicking!

By the way can't u even apply a *.vcf template on contacts imported from a
raw file like contacts' list already maintained in Excel? If ever get an
idea/code for doing so please do let this brother know!

Thanx again!
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Best Regards,
FARAZ A. QURESHI