Tag: Outlook user-defined fields
How to Import Contact Info Into Outlook from CSV Files
While the CSV import process in Outlook is very simple and extremely reliable, there are a lot of common mistakes that people make causing a lot of unnecessary aggravation along with not realizing what can and can’t be done. Most Common Mistakes Not manually mapping fields in the CSV file to the specific Outlook fields […]
Understanding Outlook User-Defined Fields (part 1)
This will be presented in three parts with the objective being to outline how to minimize potential problems when sharing information between Outlook and other programs, particularly when it comes to user-defined fields. If you do not plan on sharing information between Outlook and another program, then this article will be of little interest. However, […]
Understanding Valid vs Invalid Outlook Contact User-Defined Field Names
If you create user-defined fields and only use these fields within Outlook itself, then this article will be of little or no interest. If, however, you need to (or at some point, think you will need to) share information between Outlook and an external data source, this article will cover some points that can potentially […]
Understanding Multi-line Outlook Street Addresses
A complaint seen frequently is that when street address fields are exported from Outlook, the field is either not exported correctly and/or the field contains strange characters. This would particularly be the case if the data was exported to either a Microsoft Excel or Access file in Outlook ‘2010 or earlier or to a CSV […]
Maximum number of Outlook user-defined fields allowed
What is the maximum number of user-defined fields that can be added to an item? An <absolute> answer to that question has never been found in any publicly available documentation but, reality is, no matter what that number is, it’s far more than could ever be reasonably managed by a “mere mortal” and definitely exceeds […]
