Links between Contact and Task items

[Guest]

Hi, I have a custom contact form and a custom task form.

I want to create items in my task form and link them to my contacts using
the check names command. However, I'm finding that only those contacts with
data in the contacts FullName field are linking. Those contacts without data
in FullName but with data in Company aren't linking.

Any ideas why?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Outlook uses the name in the Full Name field to display the link. It cannot use another field.

There's no reason you can't put the company name in the Full Name field as well as the Company field.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers