Just dawned on me that it is an exceedingly long time since I had to manually type in an Outlook Contact, or even use Copy and Paste to do so. Yes, I know Joe, I am still using Outlook and fully intend to sign up for the detox programme when someone gives me one of those round tuits, but for now I'm staying with the devil I know.
"So just how do you create Outlook Contacts Mr Smartypants?"
you may well ask.
One of the biggest plusses of having signed up with LinkedIn for me, is the access I get to the Outlook plugin which allows me to "grab" text from a .sig at the bottom of someone's email into a Contact window with just one click. (yah, zis is korrekt jah. Just vun klick!). A quick visual to see that the plugin has placed the text correctly, maybe one or two edits, and "save" and it is done. Synch to mobile and we're cooking with gas (until said mobile finds that 1,000+ detailed contacts more than it was designed for! <sigh>).
Here we go, another 2,000 words worth of visuals.
From here:
(see the "grab" button top right?)
To here:
in one click. Unless of course the person uses an image as their .sig... :(
Check out LinkedIn. Not quite as funky as FaceBook, but hey, it is supposed to be a more "corporate" type of thing (and their smallprint is supposedly not quite so aggressive). ;)
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