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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Chris, I too want to have the email senders address shown. Have you had any luck in finding out how to do just that? Linda


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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No, I never found a solution to this annoyance.


On Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 8:02 pm, Linda wrote:
>Chris, I too want to have the email senders address shown. Have you had any luck
>in finding out how to do just that?
>Linda
>
>

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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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if you're technically minded, this article should give you a hand. ugh- this is way more trouble than anyone should have to go through just to see the email address of a sender!! http://www.win2000mag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=8630


On Thursday, October 24, 2002 at 1:54 pm, chester wrote:
>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
>
>

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...good lord. And why is it again that we don't all use open sorce software? ohhhhh yeah...M$ is the devil, i forgot. James. M$ is for ppl that can't find their linux cd.


On Friday, October 25, 2002 at 2:45 pm, maus wrote:
>
>if you're technically minded, this article should give you a hand. ugh- this is
>way more trouble than anyone should have to go through just to see the email address
>of a sender!!
>
>http://www.win2000mag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=8630
>
>

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Found anything do-able so far? thanks


On Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 11:31 pm, Chris Nolte wrote:
>No, I never found a solution to this annoyance.
>
>

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See replies by Chester and James. (I haven't tried either of them, but they seem to know what they're talking about.)


On Tuesday, April 8, 2003 at 6:19 pm, kaon wrote:
>
>Found anything do-able so far?
>thanks
>

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Chris, Yes there is a solution, however, like all Microsoft programming, it is oblique, kind of like an end run in football. (Programmers think for themselves, I applaud programmers who think for the user)! The solution is three step and done when you enter the address for the first time. First, use the address book to enter a contact. I usually have the email address on the clipboard ready to paste with the old keyboard crtl+v keystroke. Fill out the address book, 1st name, last name, email address. Second, paste the email address into the nick name Third, inspect the Display Name dropdown list by clicking on the dropdown arrow, the email from the nickname is now on the display list. Select it and all is well I hope I understood what what you wanted to accomplish. I think it gets the job done, though the program structure to accomplish this is an annoyance indeed! Sincerely, Mark Swanson


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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Don't you think Chris would have found the solution sometime in the 2 years and 2 months since his question and your reply............................in fact, he's probably dropped 98 for XP by now...?????

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If you do not get a 'distribution list deleted' message but just can't get the actual email address to display - I found this to be caused by a discrepancy between the setting for 'name displayed' eg. 'Bloggs, Joe' or 'Joe Bloggs' between the ADDRESS book and the CONTACT list in Outlook 2000. EVEN IF the properties show them to be displayed the same - reclick on the one you want in address book and it will automatically update CONTACTS to match - i.e. show actual email address. This is a problem where an address book is imported (I imported from Lotus). This saves an enormous amount of hassle that I had no time to try in other solutions given.


On Thursday, October 24, 2002 at 1:54 pm, chester wrote:
>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
>
>

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<< See replies by Chester and James. >>

Both of their replies ONLY will only display 
the email address of someone that EXISTS 
in your contact list of trusted correspondents !!
I do not need this info.

What I am interested in is having the email address
(NOT the contact name) displayed for any incoming 
mail from ANYONE that is NOT in my contact list.

For example there are way too many people using the
contact name "John", so when a new one comes in, 
I want to know WHICH John this is ... 
ergo show me the email address PLEASE !!

THANKS :)

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I've been researching this for some time, and haven't found a way to make Outlook 
Express display the e-mail addresses for all messages in the preview pane.  However, 
you can get the info for one particular message by highlighting the message then 
clicking on FILE and going to PROPERTIES.  The full headers will be displayed, and 
you'll be able to see the e-mail address along with the name.







On Wednesday, March 17, 2004 at 3:51 pm, PLEASE HELP wrote:

><< See replies by Chester and James. >>

>

>Both of their replies ONLY will only display 

>the email address of someone that EXISTS 

>in your contact list of trusted correspondents !!

>I do not need this info.

>

>What I am interested in is having the email address

>(NOT the contact name) displayed for any incoming 

>mail from ANYONE that is NOT in my contact list.

>

>For example there are way too many people using the

>contact name "John", so when a new one comes in, 

>I want to know WHICH John this is ... 

>ergo show me the email address PLEASE !!

>

>THANKS :)
 

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I have trouble tracking a customers responses and my replies via email because of this problem. Very sad.

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Yes, this is a really really annoying thing. It should be really simple to show the email address, and it just isn't

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Can no computer wizz outthere crack OE so we can see the Email adresses in OE. Come on Bill Gates do something about it.

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I was Googling about the same complaint. Not the solution that I was looking for, but I did find that w/ Outlook 2000 on a WinXP machine, if I simply double click the Address Book Icon, I can see the email address. It only shows on, and I'm assuming that it's the default email addess. Still I'd like to see the option to always display email address instead of Contact name.


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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