Outlook contacts: how to keep?

[tbone]

It looks like I may be changing employers soon. I have probably 1000 contacts in microsoft outlook. Is there any way to get and keep ( so I can later transfer) them electronically?

Thanks.

 

[96 Buff]

Go into your Contacts and select File->Import and Export, then choose your format, export & save to your desired location.

 

[Anastasis]

Here is another outlook contacts questions. When I add a contact from a vCard, or from a sync with my phone, it creates a single contact. But when I go to send an email and click on the "to" button to choose the recipients I get two entries for most people, one an email entry, the second a fax. I would rather just have the email's listed. Any suggestions?

 

[96 Buff]

Anastasis, sounds like the sync with your phone is duplicating your contacts. See if you have a setting in your sync manager to choose your PC to be the "primary" source (or your phone, if that's where you add more new contacts) and to only make changes when the entries are different.

 

[Steel Shank]

I was able to export my entire Outlook Contacts to my gmail account with no problemo.

 

[Anastasis]

Buff, that was my first thought to, but it's not duplicating the contacts. If I go to the contacts tab, there is only one entry for each person. The contacts only get duplicated in the "to" dialog box if the individual contact has a business fax number entered in the contact information. If they do not, they don't duplicate in the "to" dialog box. If I manually go in and delete the business fax number from the contact, the duplication goes away. I have too many contacts with fax numbers to go in and manually delete them all, and I don't want to lose the fax info. There has to be some setting to change. Also, the fax number shows up as name@512-xxx-xxxx in the dialog box.

 

[96 Buff]

From the little bit of Googling I did, it sounds like Outlook's default internet faxing is on, where Outlook sees a fax # as an email address. You could change all the fax numbers to a different number type (like Business 2) or search in Outlook Help for Hide Fax Numbers and it'll tell you of a couple add-ons you could try.

 

[Anastasis]

Thanks. Based on some searching, it seems liek the easiest way to fix it is to add "fax:" before each of the numbers. That fixes it, and didn't take too long to do to the contacts when I put them in phone list view.