Stop 'Business Fax' entry in 'Select Names' window - How? Glynn Taylor 11/9/2005 11:41:05 AM Migrated to Outlook 2003 from Outlook 2000. Any Contact with a Business Fax entry shows twice in the 'Select Names' window when composing an email. Is it possible to suppress the Business Fax lines and only show email address lines?

Re: Stop 'Business Fax' entry in 'Select Names' window - How? "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" <russval[ at ]gmail.com> 11/9/2005 11:47:37 AM The Outlook Address Book has always done this. The migration has nothing to do with it. 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 and http://www.sperrysoftware.com/Outlook_Solutions.htm (Hide Fax Numbers). 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] "Glynn Taylor" <GlynnTaylor[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:0BA8E2E4-35AF-4FC9-B966-66B8C4A260E8[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > Migrated to Outlook 2003 from Outlook 2000. > > Any Contact with a Business Fax entry shows twice in the 'Select Names' > window when composing an email. > > Is it possible to suppress the Business Fax lines and only show email > address lines? >

Re: Stop 'Business Fax' entry in 'Select Names' window - How? Glynn Taylor 11/9/2005 11:57:10 AM Thank you Russ, tprefixing the number with a letter works fine. Regards Glynn "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: [Quoted Text] > The Outlook Address Book has always done this. The migration has nothing to > do with it. > 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 and > http://www.sperrysoftware.com/Outlook_Solutions.htm (Hide Fax Numbers). > > 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] > "Glynn Taylor" <GlynnTaylor[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:0BA8E2E4-35AF-4FC9-B966-66B8C4A260E8[ at ]microsoft.com... > > Migrated to Outlook 2003 from Outlook 2000. > > > > Any Contact with a Business Fax entry shows twice in the 'Select Names' > > window when composing an email. > > > > Is it possible to suppress the Business Fax lines and only show email > > address lines? > > > > >