Re: Distribution list versus contact entries

the face icon means its linked to a contact, the rolodex card icon means its not linked to a contact. The ones with the card icon will resolve to contacts if you double click to open - but something is not perfectly matched (like the display name) so it doesn't display the face icon.

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"Jim D" <JimD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:B84BCA58-7964-4852-8C64-7715B02E2668@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I'm not sure what happened. But it seems that if I open the distribution list
and then click on the "update" button, it re-establishes the links.
What is very strange is that when I perform this action, some but not all of
the icons in the left column change appearance from including a "face" to no
face, just "data". Not all of the icons change, but I can't seem to notice
anything different about the ones with and without "faces". As soon as I do
the update, all entries appear in my contacts address book list.
Do you have any documentation on the significance of these icons?
Jim


"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:

1. you need to add them to contacts
2. did you move the contacts? Import them? Something happened to break the
link between the contact and the DL.

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"Jim D" <JimD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I submitted this question in the wrong area. Now I have another one. > Both
> are related to the Outlook Distribution list and how that list > interacts
> with
> entries in the contact folder.
> 1) When I add a new entry to a distribution list, I only add the email > and
> name. How do i get this added to my contacts?
> 2) I have a large number of entries in a distribution list. Almost all
> were
> added from existing entries in the contact list. Today, I noticed what
> seems
> to be a new problem. When I double-click on an entry in the DL, I get > the
> message "could not find contact XXXXXXX. It may have been > deleted.........
> I
> have no idea what is going on. The contact XXXXX still clearly shows up > in
> the address book.


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