Our office uses Outlook 2007 and a colleague asked me if we could configure our Outlook to recognize unknown contacts and add them to our contact database...and I have no idea.



What he is envisioning is this: When an opened email is received from a person that is not in our database, some sort of dialogue box would pop up and ask if we wanted to add this person. If yes, the "add contact" process would begin. If no, then nothing.

This sounds like it should be doable, but I can't find any information on how to accomplish this.

Is it possible??

Thanks!

Hi,


For individual emails, you can right click the actual email address and choose "Add To Contacts". This works for all versions of Outlook.


To do this automatically for all contacts you'd need an add-in like the Add Email Address. Interestingly, Microsoft used to have this feature built into Outlook 2000, but they took it out in subsequent versions.


Hope this helps!


Mike Sperry
http://www.SperrySoftware.com
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Thanks for the reply!

I will look into the add-on software option for our office.

I've heard about Outlook's "Business Contact Manager", does this add-on have similar features to the one you suggested?