Is there any way to remove (Business Fax) numbers when looking for email addresses?

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Fisheye

When clicking on the TO: button to add contacts to an email, it has a
duplicate of all contacts that have a fax number.
I have found some software that changes this behavior.
But it has only started doing this in outlook 2003, is tehre a way to hide
fax numbers?
http://www.sperrysoftware.com/Outlook/Hide-Fax-Numbers.asp
Is the place that makes the software that changes the behaviour.
Is there a built in way to do it?
 
You are mistaken. Outlook has always done this and for good reason.
Outlook considers fax numbers to be valid electronic addresses, since there
are many client- and server-based components that can use such addresses.

One method to hide fax numbers from the address book is to prefix the fax
number with one or more letters (maybe B for business fax, H for home, O for
other). If the fax number begins with a letter, Outlook won't show it in the
address book.

There are a couple of utilities that can help you hide fax numbers from the
address book. See:
http://www.rsoutlook.com/us/rshifa.htm
http://www.sperrysoftware.com/Outlook_Solutions.htm (Hide Fax Numbers)
http://www.mapilab.com/outlook/toolbox/

Another way to avoid having fax numbers appear in the address book is
simply not to enter data in the fax fields. Put fax numbers in some other
(non-phone) fields.
 
I simply put the fax number in the Home # field.

Gary

Russ Valentine said:
You are mistaken. Outlook has always done this and for good reason.
Outlook considers fax numbers to be valid electronic addresses, since there
are many client- and server-based components that can use such addresses.

One method to hide fax numbers from the address book is to prefix the fax
number with one or more letters (maybe B for business fax, H for home, O for
other). If the fax number begins with a letter, Outlook won't show it in the
address book.

There are a couple of utilities that can help you hide fax numbers from the
address book. See:
http://www.rsoutlook.com/us/rshifa.htm
http://www.sperrysoftware.com/Outlook_Solutions.htm (Hide Fax Numbers)
http://www.mapilab.com/outlook/toolbox/

Another way to avoid having fax numbers appear in the address book is
simply not to enter data in the fax fields. Put fax numbers in some other
(non-phone) fields.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Fisheye said:
When clicking on the TO: button to add contacts to an email, it has a
duplicate of all contacts that have a fax number.
I have found some software that changes this behavior.
But it has only started doing this in outlook 2003, is tehre a way to hide
fax numbers?
http://www.sperrysoftware.com/Outlook/Hide-Fax-Numbers.asp
Is the place that makes the software that changes the behaviour.
Is there a built in way to do it?
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