Insert Address Layout (2000 SR1)

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Although this involves both Word & Outlook I am fairly certain the solution lies in word so I am only posting here.

For years I have been vaguely irked that when I use the Insert Address button on my toolbar the address always includes United Kingdom as the last line. Most of my contacts are in the UK as am I and therefore it is a pain to remove it.

Having a free half hour today I tried to do something about it. According the the MS Knowledge Base I have to create a new autotext entry called AddressLayout. I did this as follows
{} {PR_SURNAME>
}{
}{
}{}
Now when I try to use the Insert Address button all I get is the name. It is not the end of the world as I can revert to the default (including the UK) by removing the autotext entry but can anybody tell me where I am going wrong?

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There seems to be a < missing in the first line. If you search for the recent thread on this, involving a lot of posts by Kevin, you will find more tips on how this syntax and all the { braces } work together.

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As Jefferson mentioned, I’ve had lots of fun recently with the AddressLayout autotext.

If you only need a simple replacement for the built-it layout, you don’t need the brackets.
Remember to use Shift-Enter for the line breaks instead of a new paragraph [Enter].

You can get pretty fancy as the brackets combined with the veritcal bar | can be used
to produce if-then logic.

Here’s another thing to keep in mind: MS flubbed when it chose “AddressLayout” for
the name of this autotext. Here’s why: if you create AddressLayout in a corporate envirnoment
— that is, you’ve created it in a global template used by all — , then your user’s
will see the autotext popup prompt every time they type “addr” — which for us is fairly
often. I got complaints about it, especially when users pressed [Enter]. They then
get a paragraph full of layout field codes.

I posted the solution to this (be sure to read Jefferson’s post. The info fixes the Word 97 problem
with the GetAddress method); it involves writing a sub that traps the
Insert Address button (getaddress method) and uses a layout by another name.
Look here: post 202908

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