Dangerous Outlook Behavior when Addressing

[Bill]

This has bit me more than once when I've been in a hurry... in Outlook 2000, say I have
multiple E-mail addresses for a name, (in the Contact view, designated as "E-mail",
"E-mail 2", "E-mail 3").

Now, if I cut and paste "E-mail 2" of a contact into the To: field of a new email,
Outlook will "automatically" set the email address to the primary email address
"E-mail", and NOT what I had just pasted in! Yes, I can right-click and re-select the
proper email address, but this behavior is so non-intuitive that while chasing a
deadline I've more than once forgotten to do this.

We should be able to trust that an email will be addressed as we intended.

This is very, very annoying, non-intuitive, and risky behavior. Is there a setting or a
workaround? Do later versions of Outlook correct this?

THANKS,

Bill.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Works as expected on Outlook 2003 for. Can't currently verify it for you in
Outlook 2000.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

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This has bit me more than once when I've been in a hurry... in Outlook 2000,
say I have
multiple E-mail addresses for a name, (in the Contact view, designated as
"E-mail",
"E-mail 2", "E-mail 3").

Now, if I cut and paste "E-mail 2" of a contact into the To: field of a new
email,
Outlook will "automatically" set the email address to the primary email
address
"E-mail", and NOT what I had just pasted in! Yes, I can right-click and
re-select the
proper email address, but this behavior is so non-intuitive that while
chasing a
deadline I've more than once forgotten to do this.

We should be able to trust that an email will be addressed as we intended.

This is very, very annoying, non-intuitive, and risky behavior. Is there a
setting or a
workaround? Do later versions of Outlook correct this?

THANKS,

Bill.