Changing the Display As field?

[Linn Kubler]

Hi,

Using Outlook 2003 with an Exchange server backend. I just gave my boss a
new computer with Outlook 2003, his previous computer had OL 97 I think.
He's noticed that when he looks at the address book there is a column called
"Display Name" and that for some of his contacts it's displaying the email
address and for others it's displaying the contact's name. He wants them
all to be consistent and display the contact name.

I'm pretty sure that the Display Name column in the address book is
populated from the Display As field in the contact details. Short of making
him manually change each of his contact's Display As field is there a way to
automate this process?

I'm guessing there is a way to accomplish this using macros but that will
take some work I'm sure. Any suggestions?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Linn

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

Email1DisplayName, Email2DisplayName and Email3DisplayName are the
properties of a contact items that contain what you want.

 

[Linn Kubler]

Great, thanks for the tip Ken. I did some digging into the help files and
found what I'm looking for. It's interesting though, the help files seem to
suggest that this is a read only field, can that be true?

Thanks again,
Linn

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

The EmailDisplay1Name, etc. fields are listed as read-only in the Object
Browser and are taken from the FullName property. When in doubt use the
Object Browser (F2).

 

[Linn Kubler]

Great, thanks!

The EmailDisplay1Name, etc. fields are listed as read-only in the Object
Browser and are taken from the FullName property. When in doubt use the
Object Browser (F2).