Contacts is usually used as a list of specific characteristics of users, such as names linked to emails, webpage, telephony number, etc.

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Why can I suddenly not send emails to my contact groups in Outlook?

I was able to send emails to my groups in Outlook and then suddenly about 6 weeks ago it stopped working. I get this message: "EmailAddress or Itemid must be included in the request" I haven't ...
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Outlook - Sychronise contacts from exchange

At work the exchange server has details of all employees in the system. Then there is the Contacts folder in Outlook. I can populate this with all staff, but, I want to synchronise it against all ...
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Synchronise Windows Live contacts

How can I set my wife's laptop to synchronise with the same contacts list as mine? We have separate Windows live accounts.
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How do I manage contacts from multple accounts (twitter, facebook, gmail, etc,.)?

I have quite a few of online accounts that I use that have contacts within them. Here are a few examples: Gmail (4 accts) Google+ FaceBook LinkedIn Outlook.com The list goes on Within these ...
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Name typing in the “TO” line for last name recognition

I have outlook 2010 on a Windows 7 laptop. When I go to send an email at the "TO" line and I start typing the name, if I start to enter the last name it will not recognize anyone in my contacts and ...
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Windows 8 Google Contacts Sync doesn't sync custom fields

I installed Windows 8 Pro a couple days ago. In the in-built "People" app, since there were options to sync contacts with several third party services like Facebook, Linkedin etc., I wanted to sync my ...
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How can I store time zone information in an Outlook Contact?

Is there a way to store the time zone of an individual in an Outlook 2010 Contact? This would be useful for making sure that I am not calling them or scheduling a meeting for after business hours.
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Application to maintain a list of contacts with reminders and notes

What I am looking for is a computer application, preferably one which would sync with Thunderbird (but not required), that will maintain a list of my contacts (email, address, phones, spouse's name, ...
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Why doesn't the People Pane in Outlook 2010 show appointments for individual contacts?

Outlook 2010 will not show appointments in the people pane. Under the activities tab if I go to All Items then eventually the appointments will show, but this takes a seriously long time. If I then ...
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Sync a specific folder of contacts to iPhone

Is there a simple way to organize contacts in Outlook/Entourage and only have a subset of them synchronize with the iPhone over Exchange ActiveSync? Our CEO has thousands of contacts in his mailbox, ...
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Synchronizing Outlook contacts and calendar with other Outlooks, Thunderbirds and Android

I would like to know if there is a way other than using Google's services to synchronize a desktop Outlook with a laptop running either Outlook/Windows or Thunderbird/Linux and an Android phone. A ...
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How do I get back an Outlook 2010 address book that is missing from TO: dialog?

The following issue is with Outlook 2010 after an upgrade from Outlook 2007. Not sure if the upgrade is the cause, but the user believes that to be the case. In the list of contacts, we have a ...
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Thunderbird - Bulk Contacting Saving

I have a folder with 400+ emails is there away that I can save the "from" e-mail addresses in a bulk matter or do I have to go and save each one, I would like to add them to a list.
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Windows Contacts in Outlook 2010

How do I make Outlook 2010 use my Windows Contacts? I don't want to import my Windows Contacts into Outlook 2010, I just want Outlook to use the contacts directly as an addressbook.
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Spam emails purporting to come from people I know, but with the wrong email addresses

Over the past two days I've gotten two spam emails whose From: lines contained the names of people I know, but with totally incorrect email addresses. Both contacts are Facebook friends of mine, but ...
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How to merge contacts from two skype account automatically?

I have two Skype account and want to merge the two contact list into one quickly. How can I do that? Update I found myself one way to do this, but to accept the sent contacts from the 2nd account, I ...
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Microsoft Outlook: Add senders to contacts

We're using Microsoft Outlook 2003/2007 with NON-EXHCANGE mailboxes, stored in PST files. Is there a way to quickly add a large number of senders from the inbox to the users contact list? I was ...
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NK2 files doesn't keep the email addresses in memory

When I send an email to someone outside the firm, when I only type the first letters of its name (Contact), I get the auto-suggest of the "Already-sent" users. So now, since a few days, the emails ...
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Export Contact List in Outlook 2010 to a pst file

How do I export the contact list from Outlook 2010 to a PST file?
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How can I easily print addresses onto envelopes that are stored in Gmail contacts?

I have a contacts group in Gmail with a haphazard collection of about 900 names. Maybe half of them have addresses associated with them. I would like to print these out on envelopes for a mass ...
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using outlook 2010 my contacts are not associated with “address book” when using email

I'm using Outlook 2010 on a new computer and I have successfully migrated "my contacts" data from my old to new compiter but when using "mail" my address book is empty. I.e., when I click on the TO ...
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Saving email contacts in contact folder in MS Outlook 2007

I have an email sent by me in my Sent Items folder. That email has more than 50 email addresses (recipients). I now want to save all those email addresses and IDs in my contact list so that I can use ...
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OSX 10.6 Sync with Google Contacts, Address Book or Itunes?

Should I use the sync functionality of Address Book or iTunes to sync Google Contacts? Pros and Cons?
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Set All Contacts as Receiving Mail in Thunderbird 3.0

In TB 3.0, I know you can set properties for a contact to indicate that e-mail should be sent as html. Rather than opening every window/contact is there some way I can set this as a default and also ...
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In Yahoo Messenger, when I appear online to only a few selected contacts (from the Stealth Settings menu), how can I set a status for them to see?

In Yahoo Messenger, when I'm signed on as invisible, and I right-click a contact and in the Stealth Settings I set "Appear online to ", can I set a status for that contact to see? And the rest see me ...
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How can I send an email to a 'Company' (or any other field) by default in Outlook 2010?

When you start typing in a name in the 'To' field in a new email the email address of said person will be automatically selected. However, this only works with the contact's First and Surname, is ...
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How to merge duplicate contact records in a .pst

Here's my problem: Once I merge my two .pst files I will have one file with a large number of contact records that are 'duplicates' in the sense that the records share the same contact name field, but ...
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Is it possible to merge Skype and Windows Live contacts?

I have both Skype and Windows Live Messenger accounts. Then, Microsoft told me to merge, so I did and only use Skype for both. I also have contacts on both lists, and they now show up twice; one ...
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How to link two contacts in Outlook 2010?

I very often use the Details part of an Outlook contact. I want to store the name of my contacts's boss or personal assistant. The only option I have is to enter the name of the boss or the PA ...
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Upgraded from Outlook 2000 to Outlook 2010, missing all of the contacts email address's

Everything from 2000 imported to 2010, except all of the contacts email address's are missing. How do I recover them and why did they magically disappear?
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How to do I save (Export) my Office Communicator Contacts?

When we upgrade to our new version of Office IT said our Communciator contacts will be nuked. Is there a way to export the contacts to a text/xml file of somesort to import once we upgrade? Or where ...
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Using to/cc/bcc in Outlook contact group

I regularly send out emails to the same group of people, but some are sent the actual email and others only a cc. Is there a way I can assign certain members in a contact group to the to or cc ...
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Birthdays don't “stick” in Mac Outlook 2011 contacts

I can create a birthday for a contact by adding it to the personal section, and that automatically generates an age, but when I save the change, then leave and come back to the same contact, the age ...
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Setting iCloud Contacts to be the default contact directory in Outlook 2007

I am trying to set my iCloud Contacts folder in Outlook as the default folder for saving and reading contacts in Outlook 2007. I have already moved the folder up in the contacts list order and have ...
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send name to Outlook new contact from command line

i have a working Windows shortcut, which opens a new contact form in Outlook 2010 "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\OUTLOOK.EXE" /recycle /c ipm.contact But i would like to additionally ...
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0 Byte File Windows Contacts

I have synced contacts from my blackberry to windows contacts on windows 7 and the transfer has created a number of files under the name of the person but they are 0 byte files. You cannot delete or ...
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E-mail client with contact info in message list?

Neither "Thunderbird" nor "The Bat!" offer to show sender info or contact details like "organization" in the message list. Is there an e-mail client that does this?
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Best way to archive old contacts in Outlook

I store my contacts in Outlook (Outlook 2010 with Exchange 2003). I have lots of contacts that are old and I don't use anymore, but I do not want to delete. What is the best way to archive these old ...
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Lync 2013 Most Recent or Most Frequent contacts

How can I get Lync 2013 to show me a list of my most recent and most frequent contacts? I know that you can organize your contacts into groups and favorites. I would like to have a way to view my ...
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Getting Rid of Nicknames in Outlook for Mac 2011

Have an old contact that I deleted, since the url changed from one domain to another domain. However, it is still coming in as the old domain. I have cleared my cache in outlook, as well as deleted ...
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Exchange contact fields and labels

I used to use Live Hotmail for emails and iCloud for contacts, calendars, and reminders but I've recently consolidated everything to my own email address hosted on Office 365. However, I'm finding ...
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How may I get a list of all groups I belong to in Skype

For Group (conversations) that are not in my Contacts, how would I get a list of them in Skype? The only way that I've seen so far to know which of these conversations I'm in, is when someone types a ...
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Importing iPhone contacts to Live

I have multiple contacts stored in my iphone/icloud. I want to move them to win live contacts, but since I'm using custom fields in the telephone numbers, for example, those fields aren't imported. ...
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QR vcard with a photo

I am about to get a ton of business cards printed from my new corporation, and I am allowed to have a QR code on it, and I would really like to be able to add a photo to be attached to the vcard. I ...
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Extract e-mail addresses from Outlook for Mac 2011 (Ver. 14.2.3)

I have a lot of e-mails in my Outlook for Mac account (connected to my organization's exchange server). I need to build a list of all e-mail addresses that I have e-mailed or have received e-mails ...
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Consolidate several sets of contacts with Google contacts

I have 2 groups of different contacts on 2 copies of Outlook. There's a lot of overlapping between my partner contacts and mine, and I'd like to have a single, centralized repository. I was thinking ...
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Outlook showing contacts by “last name, first name” rather than “first name last name” which it's set to

This question is not about just changing the display format, that is eazy enough. The problem is one of my clients entire contact book(2000+ contacts) is now shown by "last name, first nam". if I look ...