Select Names column options

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Curtis Vaughan

When choosing to whom I wish to send a letter, I can push on the To:
button and up pops a Select Names dialog. What I want to know is how to
change the available options in the columns. I have noticed for
different sources there are different options.

Curtis
 
Curtis Vaughan said:
When choosing to whom I wish to send a letter, I can push on the To:
button and up pops a Select Names dialog. What I want to know is how
to change the available options in the columns. I have noticed for
different sources there are different options.
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What options do you wish to change? What version of Outlook are you using?
 
Brian said:
What options do you wish to change? What version of Outlook are you using?
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Outlook 2003.

I have created an additional Contacts Folder, called Company Contacts.
When I use the Select Names dialog for either Contacts, the columns are:
Name|Display Name|E-Mail Address|Type

It doesn't matter to me whether this change will effect both the Company
Contacts and Contacts but what I want is something more like this:
Name|Category|Company|E-mail Address
In fact even better might be:
Last Name|First Name|Category|Company|E-Mail Address

Thanks!
 
I am using Outlook 2003.

When choosing to whom I wish to send a letter, I can push on the To:
button and up pops a Select Names dialog. What I want to know is how to
change the available options in the columns. I have noticed for
different sources there are different options.

I have created an additional Contacts Folder, called Company Contacts.
When I use the Select Names dialog for either Contacts, the columns are:
Name|Display Name|E-Mail Address|Type

It doesn't matter to me whether this change will effect both the Company
Contacts and Contacts but what I want is something more like this:
Name|Category|Company|E-mail Address
In fact even better might be:
Last Name|First Name|Category|Company|E-Mail Address

Thanks!

Curtis
 
Curtis Vaughan said:
I have created an additional Contacts Folder, called Company Contacts.
When I use the Select Names dialog for either Contacts, the columns
are: Name|Display Name|E-Mail Address|Type

It doesn't matter to me whether this change will effect both the
Company Contacts and Contacts but what I want is something more like
this: Name|Category|Company|E-mail Address
In fact even better might be:
Last Name|First Name|Category|Company|E-Mail Address
Click to expand...

That display can't be changed, to the best of my knowledge.
 
Curtis Vaughan said:
When choosing to whom I wish to send a letter, I can push on the To:
button and up pops a Select Names dialog. What I want to know is how
to change the available options in the columns. I have noticed for
different sources there are different options.
Click to expand...

No need to ask more than once.
 
Since you have been so kind to answer, here's another question then.

We have Outlook 2003 which is set up to query an outside LDAP server.

Many email clients when querying this server will begin to show you
possible names as you enter the person to whom you wish to send the
letter. That is, say I wish to send a letter to John Downing. I don't
know John's email address, but I know it's on that LDAP server. So I
start typing in Joh.. and I get a list of all names and addresses that
have the combination of joh in them.

I have never seen Outlook (any version) be able to do this. In fact in
my case even if I enter joh, it won't show me possible options from the
LDAP server, even if I click on the Check Names icon. Only if I entered
the full name John Downing will it then show me his entry in the LDAP
server. That's absurd.

I can of course query the LDAP server another way. I have to go to
address book, choose the LDAP server, click on Advanced, then Find, then
enter the letters to query by. The search will then pull up a list of
possibilities.

Also, a lot of email clients will let me enter an asterick in order to
query the entire LDAP database, but Outlook won't.

Is there any way to get the functionality that I am referring to in Outlook?

Curtis
 
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