Changing Phone Number Titles

[Guest]

Hi,

I'm a student going to University in the fall. I would like to keep track of the contact information for my friends, which for most includes a home phone number as well as a new number for reaching them at school.

Is there any way (a registry hack or anything) that I can change the titles of the phone numbers in Outlook? I would like one option to be set for "School", and it could replace one of the many titles that I will not be using such as Assistant.

I do not want to use "other" for all my contacts' school information.

I can't believe Outlook doesn't offer the option to rename fields, actually.


Thanks!

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

No. Pick one of the unused fields and use it for the school number...
speaking from experience as a mother with kids in college 1) the cell /
mobile field is the important one 2) IM (usually AIM) is preferred to hours
on the phone.

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[Guest]

Thank you for your reply.

While you may find the mobile and AIM fields to be the most suitable for your situation, this will not be the case for me. (1) Not everyone has a cell phone, and (2) quick phone calls are preferred to hours on the internet.

Once again, I find it odd that Outlook does not offer the option of renaming an "other" field, to improve overal customizability. A suggestion I will submit, perhaps.

Thanks again.

(As for my multiple posts, I was repeatedly told there was an error and my message would not be able to post. Go figure, it did... several times. Sorry.)

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

(1) Not everyone has a cell phone,

After paying the first months long distance bill from college, most parents
discover a cell phone is a lot cheaper.

Feel free to file a wish for it... but it's been wished for before two
versions ago, as were better default labels. Maybe we'll see it in Outlook
13 - which will be released about the time you graduate.

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[Guest]

I'd like to change Business Number to Work Number and Assistant Number to
Cell Number. I too cannot believe that Microsoft doesn't give us this option.
I just spent a whole hour trying to change the field lists under the phone
number category. I'm with you Eric. I'll have to let MS know that we'd like
to have this option.

Maria

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[LaManchaDQ]

In Outllook you can change these names quite easily by modifying the Form
that Outllook uses to display the information of an individual record. If
you modify the default form then all records will be displayed with the
changed field name.

 

[Guest]

How would you do that? I've tried everything. The same fields come up even
though I've added new ones.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Not quite. You could modify the contact form to put each field on a page in its own text box and modify the label for that box. But you cannot change the actual field names, nor can you change the appearance of the built-in phone number selector drop-down lists.

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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

 

[LaManchaDQ]

Yep,

Sue is right. I had recently changed some names (actually the captions) on
some fields in the Contact form and I erroneously assumed that since I was
able to change some of captions I could change any of them. So, Marie,
sorry for misleading you.

Sue, what is the reason for locking down the captions on the phone fields?

Not quite. You could modify the contact form to put each field on a page in
its own text box and modify the label for that box. But you cannot change
the actual field names, nor can you change the appearance of the built-in
phone number selector drop-down lists.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

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