How to link contacts in Microsofts Outlook 2007

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» left by Julia from Melbourne, Australia (1 year 74 days ago.)

Thank you. Found this article immediately on the logical Google search - much quicker and clearer that hunting around Outlook and Outlook Help(?!*) to figure this out.

I do not understand why but Microsoft is I think hunting for the dumb end of the market by dumbing down applications and putting disneyesque features in. Perhaps they do not realize that they antagonize the more professional users with these games - or perhaps they do not care because we virtually have to use their product.

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» left by Wendy Hunter from Melbourne, Australia (1 year 64 days ago.)

Oh, thank goodness you were here! I too found you very easily...again, much much easier than trying to find an answer in that ridiculous excuse for a help section in Outlook itself! What on earth was Microsoft thinking? We have a contacts list of over 8,000 entries, most of which are linked at least once...just about fell off my chair when I couldn't find those links! Thanks again for your help! Wendy

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» left by Anonymous (1 year 58 days ago.)

Thanks for posting this information.

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» left by Anonymous (1 year 54 days ago.)

Thanks for posting. It's been killing me trying to find out what happened to that feature, which I used a lot in 2003 version.

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» left by ISAAC G. GOURDINE from PINEVILLE, SC (1 year 36 days ago.)

MRS. KERSHAW,

KUDOS, THANK ALOT, I WAS SURFIING & SEARCHING FOR THIS. YOU SAVED ME ALOT OF TIME & ADDITIONAL GRAY HAIRS.

 

THANKS AGAIN

CTEC2001

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» left by Yan Drafter from Malaysia (328 days 15 hours ago.)

Hi Jennifer, I am deeply in your gratitude. I could not believe it when I installed Outlook 2007 and found this link missing. Even more incredulous was the Microsoft search results when you enter "link contacts" in their online help search. 10 Pages of completely irrelevant help results continued to amaze me at the how anyone could ever use their help. They need a lot of help here.

 

Thank you very much for your posting

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» left by Anonymous (272 days 11 hours ago.)

THANKS, so much

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» left by Glenn from NJ (250 days 1 hour ago.)

Thanks. I have been struggling to figure this out since I converted to 2007. 2007 developers of the MS Suite dumped the well established GUI to create so much frustration that people I know who have not converted yet, don't want to. And I am sorry that I did.

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» left by Anonymous (238 days 1 hour ago.)

Thank you.

 

Jim Shoenfelt

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» left by Anonymous (217 days 23 hours ago.)

I really appreciate that you posted this. It's been bugging me that I couldn't find this information and your post made it easy to find. Thanks for taking the time to share your discovery with the rest of us.

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» left by balconybar from Santa Monica CA (210 days 18 hours ago.)

Hi Jennifer,

 

I too am grateful that you published this article for all the reasons mentioned before me.

 

However I've followed your instructions and I can't find a link box in my contacts. I have restarted Outlook 2007 and even restarted my PC. I've been using Outlook 2007 on a new Vista x64 PC for about two weeks now and imported my contacts from Outlook 2003.

 

Could you please help me by pointing out where in the Contact box (now super-complicated and unnecessarily so!) I should look for the links? Do I need to tweak anything else to see them? All my contacts are linked and I'd hate to think these have been lost.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Gordon

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» left by balconybar from Santa Monica CA (210 days 18 hours ago.)

PS: I've just looked into my Outlook contacts again. I have Plaxo Pulse integrated into Outlook and this occupies a big space at the bottom of each contact, obliterating where the link (or "contact" as Outlook seems to call it) box should be.

 

Problem solved for me, I think, I just need to get rid of the Plaxo!

 

Thanks again,

 

Gordon

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» left by Pete from Adelaide (187 days 9 hours ago.)

After deferring the shift to Office 2007 until now I was also horrified when the Contact link seem to have disappeared. Many thanks Jennifer!

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» left by Harry Stringer from United Kingdon (127 days 7 hours ago.)

Yes, it was very helpful. I remember being able to link contacts in Lutus Organiser many years ago, and was frustrated with Outlook for not having this feature. I even installed Contact Manager to enable some form of linking, but abandoned it when i realised contacts created in, or moved in Contact Manager would not show up when I synced with my PDA! (hence useless when contacts needed on sales trips around london). I didnt know about this contact linking feature in Outlook 2007.

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» left by Anonymous (106 days 1 hour ago.)

Thanks for your help, maybe you should get a job with Microsoft..... they need someone with some commonsense instead of the teenagers they seem to be employing who only care about the look of the software  ;)

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» left by Johanna Tomlin from Denver, CO (98 days 15 hours ago.)

This was so helpful! I have the business edition and could see how to link to a business contact, but couldn't figure out how to link to a regular contact... MS help was no help at all!!! THANK YOU!!!

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» left by Lauren W. Goetz from Domincan Republic (75 days 22 hours ago.)

Thanks a bunch. i second everything the rest have already said. very helpful. LG from the Dominican Republic
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» left by Anonymous (71 days ago.)

Awesome. I quickly found what I was looking for. Now if Microsoft would let me generate letters out of outlook contacts like I used to, I could quit complaining about 2007.

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» left by Anonymous (58 minutes ago.)
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Thank You, I was so frustrated!!! Even my "help desk" couldn't find the answer. What a relief!!!

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