Help with "Insert Item" and choosing a contact in Outlook Contacts

[Guest]

I want to be able to email contacts to people both inside and outside my
company.

When I create a new message in Outlook 2003 and I click on the arrow beside
paper clip icon to select "insert Item"
I then choose contacts and attach a contact to my new email. When I send
this email to somebody outside my company they do not get a vcard, instead
all they get is a blank message attached.
Does anybody know why the vcard/contact would be stripped and replaced with
a blank mail message?
Please advise

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Make sure you create the message in rich-text format and set the user's email address for rich-text if they're outside your company.

 

[Guest]

Thanks, how do I set the users email for rich text in Outlook 2003?

 

[Anne Troy]

Tools-->Options, Mail format.
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~Anne Troy

www.OfficeArticles.com

 

[Guest]

After trying all this it still doesn't work. I have tried this at three
different companies and the results are always the same...... when I "Insert
Item" and select a contact, it always gets replaced with a 2k email
attachment at the other end.
Even when both sending and recieving are using rich text.
any more suggestions?
Thanks

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Double-click the underlined email address to see the options for each one.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Did you check the recipient address setting? It's also possible that the server blocks rich-text content. In that case, you can use Plan B: the Forward as vCard command.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers