re: display email addresses in Outlook Express
Thursday, October 24, 2002 at 1:54 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by chester
(66 messages posted)
For Windows 2000 users with Outlook 2000: I don't know if these links will help your
annoyance, but I have found that when you move your Outlook 2000 PST file to a different
location on your harddrive, Outlook replaces Contacts' email addresses with first
and last names. Very annoying.
To make matters worse, when you try to get the Properties on the name (to try and
recover the actual email address), it displays the error message, "The name or distribution
list entry has been deleted and is no longer a valid address book entry. The item
cannot be found." Now my day is going *just* perfect.
If you follow the "Change the E-mail Type of All Contacts" procedure at...
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q180522&
... it at least restores the email address Property data, though it still continues
to display the Contact name rather than the actual email address.
Now, you can replace these by hand as shown here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q277747&
Or, to do it en masse, use the export/import method as described in the first link,
but with this new twist: When you import your Contacts, follow step 7 ('Click "Clear
Map," "Default Map'), but instead drag "Email Address" from the FROM column into
the "Email Display Address" in the TO column. (Repeat for Email 2 and Email 3, respectively.)
This will eliminate the "Email Display Name". What will remain, after the import
is done, is the email address.
Voila, the email address are displayed in the email fields! Right as rain.
As usual, an operation of this importance requires you to make good backups of your
data, lest something strange happen. Thus far, this Export-out, Import-in method
doesn't appear to have any downsides (i.e. impacting the other data fields), but
you never know...
The kicker to all of this appears in the second MS article above where it says,"This
behavior is by design."
I love it.
- Chester
On Wednesday, June 6, 2001 at 11:21 am, Chris Nolte wrote:
>Is there any way to tell Outlook Express (or Outlook) to ALWAYS display the sender's
>email address in the main view page? The default behavior seems to be that it replaces
>the email address with the user's name where that is available, and hides the email
>address. You have to select that message and get its properties before it will
tell
>you the email address, which I find infuriating.
>
>I would like it to display the sender's email address either all in one column with
>the sender's name or allow me to add a column for the sender's email address so
that
>they are adjacent to each other.
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