Cannot edit text/notes in Contact Card - Outlook 2003?

[Scott]

My wife has a contact card she uses to store information in that's relevant
to our business in the notes/text section (websites, passwords to those
sites, etc etc)...There's quite a bit of information in it, I word counted it
at 459 words, 5,300 charecters (with spaces).

When she goes to edit it now it will not let her, it just acts as though
she's not entering anything on her keyboard. All other programs, and Outlook,
otherwise work fine. She frequently sends me updated version of this card to
store in my Outlook as well and on my computer (virtually the same, both
thinkpads, same software etc) I can edit this card without a problem...

Any ideas?

(BTW, I know this isn't a secure/good method to store sensitive information
in and if it were vital information (like access to our finances etc) she
wouldn't be doing it. She's more doing this as a convienence and if someone
got the information sure it would be a pain in the butt, but it wouldn't be
devastating or anything - so please leave out the "that isn't a good method,
perhaps you should try storing that information this way" comments as
unfortunately I can't (and have tried) to get her to do things a little
different...she won't)

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

There is a hard limit to the amount of information that can be entered into
the Notes area of contacts.

Did you include spaces in your count of characters?

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, Scott asked:

| My wife has a contact card she uses to store information in that's
| relevant to our business in the notes/text section (websites,
| passwords to those sites, etc etc)...There's quite a bit of
| information in it, I word counted it at 459 words, 5,300 charecters
| (with spaces).
|
| When she goes to edit it now it will not let her, it just acts as
| though she's not entering anything on her keyboard. All other
| programs, and Outlook, otherwise work fine. She frequently sends me
| updated version of this card to store in my Outlook as well and on my
| computer (virtually the same, both thinkpads, same software etc) I
| can edit this card without a problem...
|
| Any ideas?
|
| (BTW, I know this isn't a secure/good method to store sensitive
| information in and if it were vital information (like access to our
| finances etc) she wouldn't be doing it. She's more doing this as a
| convienence and if someone got the information sure it would be a
| pain in the butt, but it wouldn't be devastating or anything - so
| please leave out the "that isn't a good method, perhaps you should
| try storing that information this way" comments as unfortunately I
| can't (and have tried) to get her to do things a little
| different...she won't)

 

[Scott]

yes, the spaces were included in that count...5,300 charecters with spaces,
5,000 without...again though, this contact card on my machine with the same
software and the same information in it lets me edit it, just doesn't work on
hers.