Re: Second Email (email 2) from email message not saving with contact

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From: Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] (russval_at_mvps.org)
Date: 02/05/04 

Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 16:50:02 -0500

Maybe it was just a preview of coming attractions.
Or the mushrooms you had for dinner last night.
I'll keep an eye out for anything similar, but I've sure never seen anything
like it. 

-- 
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Randy Hayes" <rhayesexpert@netsolutions.com> wrote in message
news:eyl%238tC7DHA.2760@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> This has to be the strangest thing I have seen in Outlook (strange defined
> toward end of this message).
>
> Here is the setting leading up to this "issue"
>     - I have a contact, lets call him Bill Contact, that has an email
> address set to BillContact@bill.com.
>
> Here is what happened.
>     - Bill Contact sent me an email from another email account (his work
> account - for the record)
>
> I wanted to add that to his contact as email 2
> Here is exactly what I did.
>     - I double-clicked on his email address (BillContact@work.com) in the
> opened message. (in the past, that brought up a dialog of e-mail
properties)
>
> Here's what then happened:
>     - Outlook opened up the contact record for Bill Contact.  AND in the
> email 2 field there was his email that I had just double clicked on.
>     - In the email 1 field it still had the original BillContact@bill.com
>
> I thought this was the sweetest thing I had seen yet.  Here Outlook had
> automatically done what I used to have to copy and paste and click around
> for all in one little double-click.
>
> But, then when I saved the contact record and brought it back up, it
(email
> 2) was gone.  I was able to double-click the email address endlessly and
the
> action would always be to bring up that record and fill in email 2.  But,
> never did it save it.  The bad news was that I couldn't even bring up the
> dialog to copy and paste from....needless to say I worked around it and
put
> out this origianl newsgroup message.
>
> Now, the strange part.  I just went back to duplicate the actions that I
> described above...and to my shock...it now just brings up the e-mail
> properties dialog like it did before.
>
> So, it looked like for a while that Outlook 2003 finally knew what I
wanted
> to do when I double-clicked an email, but didn't know what I wanted to do
> when I clicked save.  Now it doesn't know any more.  Strange!  And now I
> guess I can say "Not here" too!
> It was like seeing a glimmer of a feature that I really liked, but then
had
> it taken away from me.
>
>
>
>
> "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" <russval@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:u$qSk1p6DHA.632@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > Not here. Describe more completely what you are doing that seems
> > "automagically" to create a Contact Record for you. Double clicking an
> > e-mail address brings up the same properties dialog for the address that
> it
> > always has.
> > -- 
> > Russ Valentine
> > [MVP-Outlook]
> > "Randy Hayes" <rhayesexpert@netsolutions.com> wrote in message
> > news:ep9FpOn6DHA.2540@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > > I recently upgraded to 2003 (from XP and prior from 2000, etc)
> > >
> > > I see a partially working feature!   Tell me if this is correct, or if
I
> > am
> > > missing something here.
> > >
> > > I typically have contacts with multiple email addresses (email, email
2,
> > > email 3) and "display as"'s.  In the past if I received an email from
> the
> > > contact with an email that was not in the contact, I would dbl-click
on
> > the
> > > email address, copy the address from the dialog that appeared.  Open
the
> > > contact and then paste the new email into the proper email entry.
> > >
> > > NOW, in 2003 it seems to automagically bring up the contact
information.
> > > And amazingly enough the email 2 entry is filled in with the email
> address
> > > from the email that I started from...WOW, this is great.
> > >
> > > The problem is, I save the contact and then re-open it and the
> information
> > > is gone!
> > >
> > > Am I missing something here?
> > >
> > > Randy
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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