Deleted Contact

[denmarfl]

Outlook 2007\Vista Home prem 32bit. Several months ago I deleted an E-mail
address. I deleted the address from my Outlook Address Book; from the "TO" in
NEW Message, and, from Contacts Folder.

I decided to re-enter that same e-mail...I did so using Outlook When I
entered it, it came back advising the address already existed....Update\Add
New. I cancelled....went to address book, "TO" and Contacts...the address
was definitely not there.

Why after completly deleting this e-mail address months ago, did I get the
prompt the Contact existed?

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

You deleted an email address? How?
You never manipulate Outlook data from the address book interface. Clarify
what you did. All data entry and editing is done in the Contacts Folder.

 

[denmarfl]

Right or wrong, what I did was open Outlook, click on the Address Book Icon,
scrolled down to the address I wanted to delete,right clicked on it, the menu
that opened displayed Delete...I clicked it and the address was deleted. If
you should never delete from within Outlook why did the program designer
include this delete feature?

After I deleted it as described above, I then selected a NEW message in
Outlook, typed the first few letters of address, it appeared, I used the
delete key to delete it. I then opened the contacts folder, right clicked on
the address and clicked delete.

Taking these steps I thought I had properly deleted the address, properly in
all 3 places, and the e-mail was totally deleted from my PC.

I take it that the proper way to delete Contacts\e=mail addresses is
deleting them from the Contact Folder and when doing so it would delete the
Contact from Outlooks' Address Book and from the TO list as well? Correct?
If not what is the crrect way?

You deleted an email address? How?
You never manipulate Outlook data from the address book interface. Clarify
what you did. All data entry and editing is done in the Contacts Folder.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Outlook 2007\Vista Home prem 32bit. Several months ago I deleted an
E-mail
address. I deleted the address from my Outlook Address Book; from the "TO"
in
NEW Message, and, from Contacts Folder.

I decided to re-enter that same e-mail...I did so using Outlook When I
entered it, it came back advising the address already
existed....Update\Add
New. I cancelled....went to address book, "TO" and Contacts...the address
was definitely not there.

Why after completly deleting this e-mail address months ago, did I get the
prompt the Contact existed?

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

That's what I said. You manipulate Contacts data from the Contacts Folder.
The address book view contains no data and was never intended to be an
interface to your data.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Right or wrong, what I did was open Outlook, click on the Address Book
Icon,
scrolled down to the address I wanted to delete,right clicked on it, the
menu
that opened displayed Delete...I clicked it and the address was deleted.
If
you should never delete from within Outlook why did the program designer
include this delete feature?

After I deleted it as described above, I then selected a NEW message in
Outlook, typed the first few letters of address, it appeared, I used the
delete key to delete it. I then opened the contacts folder, right clicked
on
the address and clicked delete.

Taking these steps I thought I had properly deleted the address, properly
in
all 3 places, and the e-mail was totally deleted from my PC.

I take it that the proper way to delete Contacts\e=mail addresses is
deleting them from the Contact Folder and when doing so it would delete
the
Contact from Outlooks' Address Book and from the TO list as well?
Correct?
If not what is the crrect way?

You deleted an email address? How?
You never manipulate Outlook data from the address book interface.
Clarify
what you did. All data entry and editing is done in the Contacts Folder.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Outlook 2007\Vista Home prem 32bit. Several months ago I deleted an
E-mail
address. I deleted the address from my Outlook Address Book; from the
"TO"
in
NEW Message, and, from Contacts Folder.

I decided to re-enter that same e-mail...I did so using Outlook When I
entered it, it came back advising the address already
existed....Update\Add
New. I cancelled....went to address book, "TO" and Contacts...the
address
was definitely not there.

Why after completly deleting this e-mail address months ago, did I get
the
prompt the Contact existed?

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Right or wrong, what I did was open Outlook, click on the Address Book
Icon,
scrolled down to the address I wanted to delete,right clicked on it, the
menu
that opened displayed Delete...I clicked it and the address was deleted.

All you did was delete the E-mail field from the contact record. You did
not remove the contact itself. When you try to re-add it the way you
describe, Outlook is telling you the contact alreday exists, which it does.
Open the Contacts folder, find the contact, then add the new address there.

 

[denmarfl]

In Summary, I deleted the e-mail address within Outlook' Adress Book, deleted
it from the TO in the New message, and dleted it from the Contact Folder. I
therefore thought I completely deleted the E-Mail\Contact. When I went to
ADD it back, using Outlook's Address Book, ADD a New Contact, I got the
message it already existed. This just makes no sense to me.

The proper way to Delete or ADD Conatcts...is using the Contact Folder? I
just Added a new Contact using the ADD CONTACT in the Contact Folder. It is
in the Folder but it is Not in the Outlook Address Book.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

The proper way to Delete or ADD Conatcts...is using the Contact Folder? I
just Added a new Contact using the ADD CONTACT in the Contact Folder. It
is
in the Folder but it is Not in the Outlook Address Book.

Did you add an email address for this contact and, if so, does it appear
underlined in the contact record? If you right-click the Contacts folder
where you added this entry and choose Properties, then select the Outlook
Address Book tab, is the box labeled "Show this folder as an e-mail Address
Book" checked?

 

[denmarfl]

I went to C:\Users\XXXX\Contacts (I have only 1 Contacts Folder)...I clicked
NEW CONTACT....added Contact with e-mail address. After saving the entry I
went back and looked at it, the E-mail I enter was now on the right side, and
underlined followed in (Perferred). When I right clicked on my CONTACTS
Folder, then Properties, there was no Outlook Tab. The tabs are, General,
Sharing, Security, Location, Customize. I clicked on all tabs....none
displayed the word Outlook.
I did open Outlook, Address Book, the address I entered did not appear in my
Address Book.

 

[Gordon]

I went to C:\Users\XXXX\Contacts

That's NOT your Outlook contacts - that's where WINDOWS contacts are.

 

[denmarfl]

OK...so now I am told don't use the Outlook Address Book to add or delete
entries ....use the Contacts Folder. Now I find out that the Contacts Folder
I am using and thought was the correct Contact Folder to ADD or delete
Outlook entries is the Windows Contacts List.... So what Contact
Folder...where is it (path) am I to use to add and delete Outlook
contact\addresses?

 

[Gordon]

OK...so now I am told don't use the Outlook Address Book to add or delete
entries ....use the Contacts Folder. Now I find out that the Contacts
Folder
I am using and thought was the correct Contact Folder to ADD or delete
Outlook entries is the Windows Contacts List.... So what Contact
Folder...where is it (path) am I to use to add and delete Outlook
contact\addresses?

In Outlook.
Click on Contacts....

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

I went to C:\Users\XXXX\Contacts (I have only 1 Contacts Folder)...I
clicked
NEW CONTACT....added Contact with e-mail address.

That has NOTHING to do with the Contacts folder in Outlook.

In Outlook, select the Contacts folder from the Navigation Pane on the left
hand side. You'll need to use wither the Contacts view (the Contacts button
near the bottom of the Nav Pane) or the Folder List view (the Folder List
button down there as well) in order to see it in the Nav Pane. Click that
COntacts folder and the right hand pane will show you all your contacts.