Mapping of zip/postal code and city field reversed

[John H Gamborg]

Today I discovered that the fields zip/postal code and city in my
Outlook contacts have reversed in the contact card view (after I
have double-clicked a contact and it opens in its own window).

This view is shown here:
http://www.gamborg.dk/john/download/contacts_incorrect.gif

When I click on the "Business" button to edit the address, all the
information are in the correct fields. As shown here:
http://www.gamborg.dk/john/download/contacts_correct.gif

So it seems to me that the only thing wrong is how Outlook displays
the information is incorrect. How can I change this?


John

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You didn't mention your Outlook version. I don't see that problem in OL2003 SP2.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[John H Gamborg]

You didn't mention your Outlook version. I don't see that problem in OL2003 SP2.

Sorry, my Outlook version is 2003 SP2.

Could it be a regional setting, is this mapping format usual in the US?


John

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

I'm in the U.S. and I see what the site at http://www.bitboost.com/ref/international-address-formats/norway/norway.html says is the correct format. I can't explain why your copy of Outlook is showing something else.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[John H Gamborg]

I'm in the U.S. and I see what the site at

http://www.bitboost.com/ref/international-address-formats/norway/norway.html

says is the correct format. I can't explain why your copy of Outlook is
showing
something else.From the same website I can see that in the U.S. the format is like
that shown in my outlook contacts address cards. So logically this could
mean that the program displays the U.S. format.

But I still wonder how I can change that settings to get the correct
formatting back.

I use the English version of OL2003 SP2, but have had no problems
displaying the addresses in the correctly Norwegian format. And it's
only wrong in the address card display. All other places it displays
correctly.


John

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Outlook uses a different address format depending on the country listed in the contact. There are no user-configurable settings for this feature. That's why I find the difference baffling and unexplainable. If you have a retail copy of Outlook, you might want to file a support incident on the web site at http://support.microsoft.com

BTW, you don't mean address cards. Those are a display feature of the folder view, not of the individual item view.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[John H Gamborg]

BTW, you don't mean address cards. Those are a display feature of the folder view,

not of the individual item view.
Yes, that's right. Thank you for the correction.

I tried to change the country of the contacts and then it corrected
itself automatically. But still no clue to how this happened and I
don't want to change all of my contacts manually :-(


John