Forwarding Contact by email

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My wife and I both use Outlook 2003. She has a contact I need. She
right-clicked on the contact, and selected "Forward". A Compose Mail window
appeared, with the contact as a little "card" type attachment. I duly
received the email, but the "card" has turned into a Message, and there are
no contact details to be seen. How did that happen, and how can she send me
this contact?

Thanks
 
Is she using rich text format for the message, rather than "let Outlook
decide..."?

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After furious head scratching, Gordon asked:

| My wife and I both use Outlook 2003. She has a contact I need. She
| right-clicked on the contact, and selected "Forward". A Compose Mail
| window appeared, with the contact as a little "card" type attachment.
| I duly received the email, but the "card" has turned into a Message,
| and there are no contact details to be seen. How did that happen, and
| how can she send me this contact?
|
| Thanks
 
Milly Staples - MVP Outlook said:
Is she using rich text format for the message, rather than "let Outlook
decide..."?

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Gordon asked:

| My wife and I both use Outlook 2003. She has a contact I need. She
| right-clicked on the contact, and selected "Forward". A Compose Mail
| window appeared, with the contact as a little "card" type attachment.
| I duly received the email, but the "card" has turned into a Message,
| and there are no contact details to be seen. How did that happen, and
| how can she send me this contact?
|
| Thanks
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I've just forwarded the contact using Plain Text, and the result is exactly
the same.......
 
What if she drags the contact item into a mail message window?

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
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After furious head scratching, Gordon asked:

| "Milly Staples - MVP Outlook"
| || Is she using rich text format for the message, rather than "let
|| Outlook decide..."?
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|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
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|| After furious head scratching, Gordon asked:
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||| My wife and I both use Outlook 2003. She has a contact I need. She
||| right-clicked on the contact, and selected "Forward". A Compose Mail
||| window appeared, with the contact as a little "card" type
||| attachment. I duly received the email, but the "card" has turned
||| into a Message, and there are no contact details to be seen. How
||| did that happen, and how can she send me this contact?
|||
||| Thanks
||
||
|
|
| I've just forwarded the contact using Plain Text, and the result is
| exactly the same.......
 
You might get better results if your wife exports the Contact to a VCard
file and sends that to you.

-Peter
 
How does she do this? It works every time using Outlook 2003.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
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After furious head scratching, Gordon asked:

| "Milly Staples - MVP Outlook"
| || What if she drags the contact item into a mail message window?
||
|
|
|
| Exactly the same.......!!!!
 
Also, if she uses Insert->Item and selects the contact item, does that work?

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Gordon asked:

| "Milly Staples - MVP Outlook"
| || What if she drags the contact item into a mail message window?
||
|
|
|
| Exactly the same.......!!!!
 
Brian Tillman said:
She should try using Rich Text.
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My Outlook is set to use Plain Text, and when I forwarded a contact to
myself, it worked perfectly! So how would changing to RTF differ?
 
Milly Staples - MVP Outlook said:
How does she do this? It works every time using Outlook 2003.

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It was me that did it! Right-click on contact, select "Forward"........works
on my Outlook but not hers!
However, another suggestion in this thread was to forward as a VCard - that
has worked.

Very strange as to why the normal forward doesn't work........
 
Gordon said:
My Outlook is set to use Plain Text, and when I forwarded a contact to
myself, it worked perfectly! So how would changing to RTF differ?
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Rich Text is Outlook's native format. I don't know you would be more
successful, but it costs you nothing to try. It's up to you.
 
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