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Questions tagged [contacts]

Contacts is usually used as a list of specific characteristics of users, such as names linked to emails, webpage, telephony number, etc.

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Access Office 365-directory using LDAP

My company runs internal e-mail-traffic using Outlook 365. I prefer using a proper e-mail client (in my case: thunderbird) via IMAP and SMTP, which is no problem since the server adresses are provided in the Outlook 365 settings dialogue. Now, I…
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Outlook won't autocomplete "TO" when typing a contact's last name

I have Outlook 2010 on a Windows 7 laptop. When I go to send an email, if I start typing a contact's last name in the "TO" line, Outlook will not auto-populate a list of names that fit the description of what I have typed so far. However, if I start…
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Editing contact in GMail overwrites iPhone contact photo with a poor quality picture

I spend a decent amount of time setting the photos for all the contacts on my iPhone so that the photo will come up full-screen when talking to them on the phone. I use ActiveSync to sync my iPhone with Google Contacts and Calendar, and that is all…
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Calendar & Contacts - How to Mark All as Read

In Outlook 2013, the folder view is showing my Calendar and Contacts with a number to the right of it. I assume this means there are "unread" items in Calendar and Contacts. Perhaps my assumption is wrong on what these numbers are, but I want the…
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How can I merge duplicate contacts in Outlook?

I wanted to improve my address book and got a Memotoo account, which takes in contact info from LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Android and Outlook (and several others). You can imagine that I have the same contacts on different platforms and I…
Ivo Flipse
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What happens to Google contacts in the People app in Windows 8

In the People tile in Windows 8, you can connect to your different accounts, e.g. LinkedIn, Facebook, Google contacts. I have a lot of contact information in Google Contacts that I have carefully curated. I also have Facebook and LinkedIn…
Klas Mellbourn
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How to make Outlook show contact names as Firstname Lastname?

I use Outlook 2010 on Windows 7. Out the box, it shows contact names as "Lastname, Firstname" eg. "Dylan, Bob". I would rather it show "Firstname Lastname" eg. "Bob Dylan" Recently when someone emailed me, I read the subject of the email in…
Bala
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Multiple contacts with shared information

Background: I currently have several hundred contacts, synchronized between a Microsoft Exchange server and several mobile devices. I also save exported copies of the contacts in .vcf format. (The mobile devices I'm currently using are a Symbian…
Keith Thompson
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How to delete contacts from the Windows 8 People app?

I never really bothered to keep my Hotmail contact information up to date, so now that I connected it to Windows 8, suddenly I see all this outdated contact information or people I've long stopped talking to. I don't see any buttons or options…
Ivo Flipse
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On Pidgin, how to search for the next person with a name?

In the contact list, when I type a name, it highlights the first match. How to find the second match? I tried F3 with no avail.
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Can I retrieve a contact image from the iPhone contact list?

I have a picture I snapped with my iPhone that I set as the image for someone on my phone contact list. Now I've lost the original image out of the photo folders. Is there any way to pull it out of the contact list?
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Retrieve/Export contacts from Viber PC version

Question: I was using Viber in both PC (not the windows 8 metro style app) and Mobile phone. Unfortunately I lost my phone. Still I can use the desktop version of Viber . I can see all my contacts there (Viber + non-Viber). I need to retrieve those…
Kushan Randima
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How do I manage contacts from multple accounts (twitter, facebook, gmail, etc,.)?

I have quite a few of online accounts that I use that have contacts within them. Here are a few examples: Gmail (4 accts) Google+ FaceBook LinkedIn Outlook.com The list goes on Within these accounts there some contacts that are unique (i.e.…
James Mertz
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Outlook - Sychronise contacts from exchange

At work the exchange server has details of all employees in the system. Then there is the Contacts folder in Outlook. I can populate this with all staff, but, I want to synchronise it against all staff (occasionally) removing people who in are in my…
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Delete multiple contacts in Windows 8 People App

Is it possible to select multiple contacts in the People application instead of one at the time, so I can delete them all at once?
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