TSGL: Outlook 2007 Contacts showing appointment subject in namefield when choosing email recipients - what ?!?

[Merna Bitter]

Keeping in mind that

(a)    I have only used Outlook many years ago as part of an IT course

(b)    you have not mentioned what OS your friend is using

(c)    you have not indicated whether this is a new problem (i.e. he was
using Outlook 2007 successfully for X months or years without this problem
and something happened to change it)

hopefully some of the following links from a variety of Google searches
might be helpful (for this or other Outlook problems).  Hopefully, too, it's
not a virus or other malware problem.  I didn't find anything about the
contact and subject fields being reversed but found various posts about
reasons that the contacts might not display when using the "To" button.


There were multiple posts about problems with, or caused by, synchronising
Outlook 2007 contacts with BlackBerry, iPhone, iPod touch, iTunes (see
http://www.everythingicafe.com/forum/windows-pc-and-iphone/outlook-2007-contacts-syncing-w-iphone-3343.html
for one example) .


http://support.microsoft.com/kb/287563
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179110.aspx   (see section
titled "Personal Address Book")


http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/CH100622101033.aspx  and the next
page
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/CH100622101033.aspx?stt=26
    from that page above  --
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA102668021033.aspx


http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/ms-outlook/132319/To-Button-Not-Working
(with many pages of forums at
http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx/ms-outlook/200708/to45 )

http://www.slipstick.com/config/backup2007.asp
a lot of good info at  http://www.slipstick.com/index.htm
and the Outlook Users' link ( http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ )


http://help.lockergnome.com/office/Outlook-2007-mail-issue--ftopict947727.html
different problem, but perhaps some helpful hints/comments
(continues on second page at
http://help.lockergnome.com/office/Outlook-2007-mail-issueftopic-947727-days0-orderasc-20.html
although not much there)


Merna


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Sweeden" <michaelsweeden at comcast.net>
To: "'Tech Support Guy Mailing List'" <list at tsgserver.com>
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 11:24 PM
Subject: TSGL: Outlook 2007 Contacts showing appointment subject in
namefield when choosing email recipients - what ?!?


>I have a friend running Outlook 2007 and he's done something I cannot
>figure
> out how to reverse. If he opens his contacts they all display correctly
> and
> nothing seems amiss. But, when her creates a new email and presses the
> "To"
> button to bring up the names list, the names display as blank. I've found
> through trial and error that the "Name" column is actually showing the
> "appointment subject" field - what?!? I can put the name into the
> appointment subject field, then it appears on the list. It's like, when
> choosing email recipients, the name field has been remapped to the
> appointment subject field, and I have no idea how he did this nor do I
> know
> how to reverse it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
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