Do VCards have a standardized format?

[Joseph]

I was just wondering if VCards have their own standardized
formatting. We use a industrial basic contact Rev as our
standard contacts form in Outlook. If a user sends that
contact information as a Vcard, the end user just sees the
default conatct form even if they too have the other
contact rev installed.

Joe

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

VCards are just text files that follow an Internet RFC standard. You can
open any one of them in Notepad and see how they are formatted. Outlook
doesn't completely implement the standard and some things don't work or are
left out, depending on your Outlook version. But generally they are
compatible with any mail client that supports the standard.

See http://www.slipstick.com/problems/vcardcrash.htm and
http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/index.htm and
http://www.imc.org/pdi/vcardoverview.html for more information.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

To add to what Ken said, the same rule applies to vCards as to importing
from any other source -- the imported items do not use custom forms (unless
you have substituted a custom contact form for the default form for *all*
contacts using a registry entry).