Outlook Answer Book, The: Useful Tips, Tricks, and Hacks for Microsoft Outlook® 2003

Contacts

3.11. What Are Contacts?

The Address Book is a collection of address books of different types and formats. One of these types is called the Outlook Address Book. Only one Outlook Address Book is defined for each Outlook profile, and it contains all of your Contacts folders. Each of these Contacts folders is then a repository for storing information about the contacts (people and businesses) with whom you associate. Here is a list of some of the information elements that you can store about an individual as an Outlook contact:

• Name

• Job title

• Company

• Multiple e-mail addresses

• Web page address

• Instant message address

• Multiple phone/fax numbers (up to 19)

• Multiple addresses

• Picture

• Nickname

• Spouse's name

• Birthday

• Title

• Anniversary

• Suffix

• Profession

• Digital ...