creating a new contact, need to add more than 3 email addressess

[Guest]

when creating a new contact, some contacts have more than 3 email addresses.
how can we add additional email address fields.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You would have to add another contact record. Outlook allows only 3 addresses per contact.

 

[Rob Richards]

You would have to add another contact record. Outlook allows only 3 addresses per contact.

Is there any way to change this behaviour? I too need to add more than three
email fields and was able to do this in Outlook 2000 via the properties
dialogue in the email To fields (which is a different view on the contact to
the standard view reached via the contacts page).

I know this sounds like a vent, but if a junior programmer in my team limits
a database in this way I'd want a justification when a design could allow any
number of email address (and phone numbers etc).

Do MS people read these forums and could someone add this as a feature
request for future versions - please put in more email fields, or best,
remove the limit. As people get more and more connected I can't think this
won't crop up for a significant number of people.

I find this dumbing down behaviour frustrating as it was working as I'd want
it in Outlook 2000 has been restricted.

 

[Rob Richards]

My apologies as I can't edit posts, but that last line isn't meant to be
vitriolic, although it is a genuine frustration. I'm all for changing UIs, as
per the ribbon interface, but it seems an increasingly common trend to hide
advanced options, or remove them lest they scare basic users.

There may have been some research that x% of users only needs three email
fields, but with Office being so popular, a small value of x could be a large
number of people.

I am curious though - is this forum monitored and is this likely to make it
to a feature request database?

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Microsoft occasionally drops by here but it is largely unmonitored. Feature
requests are best done via the Web on the Office page using the Contact
option.

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After furious head scratching, Rob Richards asked:

| My apologies as I can't edit posts, but that last line isn't meant to
| be vitriolic, although it is a genuine frustration. I'm all for
| changing UIs, as per the ribbon interface, but it seems an
| increasingly common trend to hide advanced options, or remove them
| lest they scare basic users.
|
| There may have been some research that x% of users only needs three
| email fields, but with Office being so popular, a small value of x
| could be a large number of people.
|
| I am curious though - is this forum monitored and is this likely to
| make it to a feature request database?
|
| "Rob Richards" wrote:
|
|| "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:
||
||| You would have to add another contact record. Outlook allows only 3
||| addresses per contact.
||
|| Is there any way to change this behaviour? I too need to add more
|| than three email fields and was able to do this in Outlook 2000 via
|| the properties dialogue in the email To fields (which is a different
|| view on the contact to the standard view reached via the contacts
|| page).
||
|| I know this sounds like a vent, but if a junior programmer in my
|| team limits a database in this way I'd want a justification when a
|| design could allow any number of email address (and phone numbers
|| etc).
||
|| Do MS people read these forums and could someone add this as a
|| feature request for future versions - please put in more email
|| fields, or best, remove the limit. As people get more and more
|| connected I can't think this won't crop up for a significant number
|| of people.
||
|| I find this dumbing down behaviour frustrating as it was working as
|| I'd want it in Outlook 2000 has been restricted.