Problems with Contacts in Inbox?

[ChaseNYC]

I need to figure out a way to get all the names in the inbox to not be
what is displayed in the "from" field but rather as they appear in my
contacts folder. I understand completely that the From column cannot be
changed to anything else so I was wondering how to go about making
maybe a new column and having whenever an email comes in, add to that
new column their contact display name, hopefully it can be done with a
script. The reason i wish to do this is because currently when I
recieve mail some of the names come in first name then last name while
others come in last name then first order as well as their email
address. I have a large amount of e-mails and it has become difficult
to find all e-mails from a specific person since their name can be in
any format depending on what they have specified on their computer. I
am using Outlook 2002

Thank you for your time.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

The article at http://www.win2000mag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=8630
might be helpful too you. Note the comments about using Redemption, instead
of CDO, to avoid security prompts.

This sample puts the email address in each item. In your case, you could use
the address in a MAPIFolder.Items.Find search string to get the matching
item from your Contacts folder.