Outlook annoyance (XP SP-2)

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Some of the fields in some of my contacts are displayed in bold. This is annoying but obviously not critical. Does any one know what causes this or how to fix it?

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None of mine have any bold “data” in the fields. Check this: View>Current View>Customize Current View… and see what you have for Automatic Formatting. Anything there that could trigger this? Also, do you use the Journal?

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Well, that is very interesting. There’s a rule there that says Distribution Items and Unread Contacts should be in bold and also Overdue Contacts should be red. This is clearly the default as I did not make these rules. When I changed the font for Unread Contacts to regular the bold went away. I checked my other contact folders and they all have the same settings. Assuming that this setting is normal, somehow some of my contacts were flagged as Unread. What does this mean and how might it happen? I have close to 50 contact folders. Is there away to change all the settings at once, and is there a way to change the default values for new contact folders?

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I think I have answered the last part of my question. In the menu View|Current View|Define Views, select address cards, click the ‘Modify’ button, change the ‘Automatic formatting’ settings, uncheck the ‘Only show views created for this folder’ checkbox and click the ‘Apply View’ button. Voil

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For me, those settings were the default in Outlook 98 and onwards. Why they never impacted you before, I do not know.

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In my case, I think I’m still using the Outlook 97 PST I’ve been dragging along for years, so perhaps that’s why mine didn’t have the automatic formatting.

No, wait, now I’m not sure. At one point I had the “stuck in the Outbox” problem and had to create a new PST. Maybe that was in Outlook 97, too…

Anyway, it’s a very odd default!

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Hey, it’s an odd program!

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Hey, it’s an odd program!

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In my case, I think I’m still using the Outlook 97 PST I’ve been dragging along for years, so perhaps that’s why mine didn’t have the automatic formatting.

No, wait, now I’m not sure. At one point I had the “stuck in the Outbox” problem and had to create a new PST. Maybe that was in Outlook 97, too…

Anyway, it’s a very odd default!

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For me, those settings were the default in Outlook 98 and onwards. Why they never impacted you before, I do not know.

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I think I have answered the last part of my question. In the menu View|Current View|Define Views, select address cards, click the ‘Modify’ button, change the ‘Automatic formatting’ settings, uncheck the ‘Only show views created for this folder’ checkbox and click the ‘Apply View’ button. Voil

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Well, that is very interesting. There’s a rule there that says Distribution Items and Unread Contacts should be in bold and also Overdue Contacts should be red. This is clearly the default as I did not make these rules. When I changed the font for Unread Contacts to regular the bold went away. I checked my other contact folders and they all have the same settings. Assuming that this setting is normal, somehow some of my contacts were flagged as Unread. What does this mean and how might it happen? I have close to 50 contact folders. Is there away to change all the settings at once, and is there a way to change the default values for new contact folders?

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None of mine have any bold “data” in the fields. Check this: View>Current View>Customize Current View… and see what you have for Automatic Formatting. Anything there that could trigger this? Also, do you use the Journal?

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