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Old December 9th, 2006, 02:06 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]
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Default Cannot edit a contact's email address

And it always will be, because it's not a simple text field like a person's name. The email "field" is actually 3 separate properties -- the display name, the address, and the type of email address. You'll need to open the contact record to edit it.

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In this screen, the email field is uneditable still.


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Old December 21st, 2006, 08:52 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
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Default Cannot edit a contact's email address

Well that's the problem: how do you want to adapt ten email domain
names just because the company changed? (I have this problem, and
passed by this thread for finding a solution)
Currently you need to remove them completely and create new ones... you
can not just edit them: cut off the old domain name and paste the new
one.
In my opinion I would like to have a usable user interface: the fact
that this field exists of three fields is none of my bussiness.. I want
to be able to just edit the field like any other field.

Just like a car has a brake, steering wheel, and so one... it's not
because the engine is in the back of some cars that the pedals are in
the back to! Although it could be easier for the car engineer!

That's by the way the problem of most newer software products:
engineers like to create intelligent wisdom in their software, but if
you want to do something different than what the engineer had in mind
than you are screwed!
I may say this as I'm myself a software engineer... so I know what I'm
talking about.

So in my opinion, this feature is a bug by design. Hope that it will be
solved in next version of outlook.


Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] wrote:
And it always will be, because it's not a simple text field like a person's name. The email "field" is actually 3 separate properties -- the display name, the address, and the type of email address. You'll need to open the contact record to edit it.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

wrote in message oups.com...

In this screen, the email field is uneditable still.


 




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