Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Solution Center

Contacts

How to migrate your Lotus Notes contacts to Outlook 2003
Provides steps to import your Lotus Notes contacts into Outlook 2003.
How to display the Contacts list in the last name, first name format in Outlook 2007 and in Outlook 2003
Provides steps to help you change the contact display format in Outlook. You can display the Contacts list in LastName, FirstName format instead of the default FirstName LastName format.
How to create a distribution list from your contacts in Outlook
Explains how to set up a distribution list in your Contacts folder, and how to add your contacts to the list.

History or Opportunities are not exported from Business Contact Manager in Outlook
Explains that you can export information only from Accounts and from Business Contacts in Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager. You cannot export History or Opportunities from Business Contact Manager.
Word 2003 searches all the mounted personal folder (.pst) files when you perform a mail merge in Word 2003 by using the Outlook 2003 Contacts folder
Fixes the problem that occurs when you use Outlook Contacts in a mail merge in Word 2003, Word 2003 searches all the mounted .pst files in Outlook 2003, looking for Contact folders.
You are prompted to approve a connection to a SharePoint feature in Outlook 2003
Describes the issue in which you are prompted to approve a connection to a calendar, a contact list, or a task list on a server that is running SharePoint Server. A hotfix is available for this issue. You must add registry keys to use this hotfix.

You receive the same warning message multiple times when you synchronize the Calendar and the Contacts list with a Palm OS device in Outlook
Describes a problem that occurs when you synchronize both the Outlook Calendar and the Contacts list with a Palm OS device. You repeatedly receive an error message. This behavior occurs because of the improved security features in Outlook.
You receive a "Could not find a contact with this e-mail address" error message when you use the "Look Up Contact" feature in Outlook
Explains that you may receive a "Could not find a contact with this e-mail address" message when you use the "Look Up Contact" function in Outlook. You can double-click the e-mail address to find the contact in the Global Address List.
Tasks do not appear to be linked to Business Contact Manager items in Outlook 2003
Describes a behavior that occurs when you create a Task directly from an item in Business Contact Manager. The new Task does not appear to be linked to the item that the Task is created from. The Task does appear in the History area of the item.