Vista Tutorial - Check Boxes in Contact List

When I have my Contacts List open....I see 2 headers.....one says "E-mail
Address" and the other says "Name".......if I point at the email address
header a little drop down menu arrow appears....I click on the arrow......I
see a list of all my contacts email addresses with a check box next to each
name. Question: What do those check boxes do? I'm trying to solve the
mystery of why Windows Mail won't look in my contact list and fill in email
addresses as I type them. Thanks for any enlightenment.


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Donald Kaufmann
I.T. Support Specialist
University of Pennsylvania
Graduate School of Education
3700 Walnut St
Phila PA 19104
215-573-5675
donaldk@gse.upenn.edu

The Contacts List is just an Explorer window. If you checked the box next
to one of those addresses you would filter the view on that particular
value. In this case, that most likely means you would just be shown the one
contact. But it's available so you can quickly filter a view on type, date,
etc.


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Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]

"Donald Kaufmann" <donaldk@gse.upenn.edu> wrote in message
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> When I have my Contacts List open....I see 2 headers.....one says "E-mail
> Address" and the other says "Name".......if I point at the email address
> header a little drop down menu arrow appears....I click on the
> arrow......I see a list of all my contacts email addresses with a check
> box next to each name. Question: What do those check boxes do? I'm trying
> to solve the mystery of why Windows Mail won't look in my contact list and
> fill in email addresses as I type them. Thanks for any enlightenment.
>
>
> --
> Donald Kaufmann
> I.T. Support Specialist
> University of Pennsylvania
> Graduate School of Education
> 3700 Walnut St
> Phila PA 19104
> 215-573-5675
> donaldk@gse.upenn.edu
>

Thanks Keith. Maybe you can answer another question. When I type an email
address it does not "auto-complete" by checking against my contacts the way
good-old OE6 did. I imported my address book as a csv file but no joy. If I
send someone an email and then, later in the day send to the same person, it
will remember the address and auto-complete. But this doesn't last from day
to day. It's a real pain having to type in complete email addresses or go
through the contact list or gadget. Do I need to have an "address book" as
well as a contact list? If you can solve this problem I will sing your
praises! Thanks.

"Keith Miller MVP" <k.miller79@no.spam.verizon.net> wrote in message
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> The Contacts List is just an Explorer window. If you checked the box next
> to one of those addresses you would filter the view on that particular
> value. In this case, that most likely means you would just be shown the
> one contact. But it's available so you can quickly filter a view on type,
> date, etc.
>
>
> --
> Good Luck,
>
> Keith
> Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
>
> "Donald Kaufmann" <donaldk@gse.upenn.edu> wrote in message
> news:eqO$C1GUHHA.4276@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> When I have my Contacts List open....I see 2 headers.....one says "E-mail
>> Address" and the other says "Name".......if I point at the email address
>> header a little drop down menu arrow appears....I click on the
>> arrow......I see a list of all my contacts email addresses with a check
>> box next to each name. Question: What do those check boxes do? I'm trying
>> to solve the mystery of why Windows Mail won't look in my contact list
>> and fill in email addresses as I type them. Thanks for any enlightenment.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Donald Kaufmann
>> I.T. Support Specialist
>> University of Pennsylvania
>> Graduate School of Education
>> 3700 Walnut St
>> Phila PA 19104
>> 215-573-5675
>> donaldk@gse.upenn.edu
>>
>