Showing posts with label Contact link. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Contact link. Show all posts

Monday, May 7, 2018

Show contact (link) in Outlook calendar entry, task, ...


Outlook has a nice feature called "Contact Linking" that allows you to link a contact with any appointment, task, other contacts, or even email. Adding this link is done with a button on the bottom of the appointment details.

In the new versions of Outlook (2013, 2016) this button is hidden by default, to reactivate it you have to change/add an entry in the registry, which are described here:

Outlook 2016:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\​Software\​Microsoft\​office\​16.0\​outlook\​preferences
DWORD: showcontactfieldobsolete
Value = 1

Outlook 2013:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\​Software\​Microsoft\​office\​15.0\​outlook\​preferences
DWORD: showcontactfieldobsolete
Value = 1

Find more details on this eg. on this page:
https://www.slipstick.com/outlook/contacts/show-contact-linking-fields/