Forwarding Contact by email

[Gordon]

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]

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

 

[Gordon]

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

Ah, possibly..........

 

[Gordon]

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

I've just forwarded the contact using Plain Text, and the result is exactly
the same.......

 

[Milly Staples - MVP Outlook]

What if she drags the contact item into a mail message window?

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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.......

 

[Gordon]

What if she drags the contact item into a mail message window?

Exactly the same.......!!!!

 

[Peter Durkee]

You might get better results if your wife exports the Contact to a VCard
file and sends that to you.

-Peter

 

[Milly Staples - MVP Outlook]

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

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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"
| || What if she drags the contact item into a mail message window?
||
|
|
|
| Exactly the same.......!!!!

 

[Milly Staples - MVP Outlook]

Also, if she uses Insert->Item and selects the contact item, does that work?

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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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.......!!!!

 

[Brian Tillman]

I've just forwarded the contact using Plain Text, and the result is
exactly the same.......

She should try using Rich Text.

 

[Gordon]

She should try using Rich Text.

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?

 

[Gordon]

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........

 

[Brian Tillman]

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?

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.