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I use outlook 2002 and 2000 at work. By default when you open a new email message and click on the "TO" button it brings up your address book which we have our contacts as our default. The problem is that we have many names in our contacts and mosthave 2 entries: the first being their email and the second their fax number. At present we cannot fax from our local machine due to hardware and telephone limitations. Is there a filter or a registry entry that we can use to only display the emailaddress, thus causing less confusion for those with minimal computer skills such as our CEO.

Any suggestion would be appreciated.
Baegis

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by syscokid

See: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=305361

WORKAROUND
If you are not using Outlook 2002 to send faxes, you can avoid this behavior by storing fax numbers in a field that is not specific to faxing. For example, you can store fax numbers in the Other field in the phone numbers section of the -Contact dialog box. This way, the fax number is still available, but is not considered as an alternative method for delivery by Outlook 2002 or by the Check Names feature.

Full details in the above link.

HTH.

by baegis

Thanks for your response but we had already tried that and was looking for something better.

best regards
Baegis

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