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    Good Add-On specifically for Contacts within Outlook?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by akwit, Sep 29, 2009.

  1. akwit

    akwit Notebook Deity

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    I am desperately trying to find something that will make it easier for me to add someone's contact info to my Outlook contacts, through an email.

    Anything worth looking at?
     
  2. DetlevCM

    DetlevCM Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Adding informationthrough an e-mail?

    Or adding information from an e-mail?

    In Outlook 2010 you can hover your mouse over the e-mail address of the sende and then select a submenu to add/edit any information.
     
  3. gmoneyphatstyle

    gmoneyphatstyle Notebook Deity

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    Well this is all I could find after a few minutes looking. No idea how well it works.

    Email Address Collector is an email extractor for Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Win/MSN Messenger, Windows Address Book, Outlook Contacts, DOC, PDF, mail EML files or for other local files. Using the advanced filtering system, Email Address CollectorOao offers you the ability to create custom rules for parsing email addresses. Plus, it automatically eliminates address duplicates. It can scan and collect e-mail addresses from the email folders of MS-Outlook, Outlook Express, Microsoft DBX files, MSN/Win Messenger, Windows Address Book, Outlook Contacts folder, web pages, PDF, DOC or other documents, files or entire folders; backup, move and restore MS-Outlook or Outlook Express folders; backup and restore Outlook Express emailing rules; scan entire folders or drives for email addresses; automatically eliminate the duplicates from the collected email addresses; create TO, CC or BCC mailto fields for sending emails to the harvested email addresses, via your email client program; define advanced filters for collecting only the desired email addresses; save the extracted addresses to a CSV file or export the email addresses to your Windows Address Book.
    Link:
    http://email-address-collector.smartcode.com/info.html

    This info below probably isn't helpful, thought I'd let you know though.

    If other outlook users are emailing you contact info that is written in the email, they should be using the electronic business card feature, not writting that contact info in an email.
    http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA102748051033.aspx

    EDIT:
    Just realized that the first one only scans for email addresses, not full contact info, which is what I think your looking for.
     
  4. akwit

    akwit Notebook Deity

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    From an email; im using 2007.

    Yeah, im looking for complete contact info.

    Thanks tho.
     
  5. gmoneyphatstyle

    gmoneyphatstyle Notebook Deity

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    One option is to create an excel file with the fields you would like to collect from everyone, email it to them, they fill it out and email it back to you, you then import that contact info into Outlook.

    I'm no expert but if you tell a bit more about who your collecting info from I might be able to suggest something that helps.