Re: prevent OL2003 to use a semi-colon as separator in fields?

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From: Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] (MillyS_at_donteventhinkaboutmailingmemvps.org)
Date: 05/23/04


Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 13:27:08 -0700

You can't. The Colon is used as a designator for something else so Outlook
uses the semi-colon.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, bart plessers
asked:

| Hello,
|
| In my contacts I want to add the children's names in the field
| "children". I want to separate the names with a colon (",") but
| everytime I leave the field, Outlook changes the colon to a
| semi-colon (";").
| How can I prevent this?
|
| Any help is appreciated!
| tia,
| bart



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