Friday 23 September 2016

Open the full contact editing form instead of the Contact Card in Outlook 2013 or Outlook 2016

Had an interesting issue today. Customer was using Outlook 2016 and did not like the 'new' contact form, when adding a new contact.
Found this little register hack that you can do, to enable the 'legacy' contact editing form.

Reference link

Steps below, in case the link above goes inactive:
In the Registry Editor, navigate to the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\Contactcard
  1. If the Contactcard key doesn’t exist, you’ll need to create it. To do so, right-click on the Common key and select New | Key from the popup menu.
  2. Rename the key to “Contactcard” (without the quotes).
  3. In the right pane, right-click on the empty space and select New | DWORD (32-bit) Value from the popup menu.
  4. Rename the new value to “turnonlegacygaldialog” (without the quotes).
  5. Double-click on the new value and enter 1 in the Value data edit box. Click OK.
  6. Select Exit from the File menu to close the Registry Editor. To allow this change to take effect, close Outlook if it’s open, and reopen it.

NOTE: I tested this in Windows 10 and 8 and found that we didn’t have to log off and log back on or restart the computer for the change to take effect. You may experience different results in other versions of Windows.
To go back to opening the new Contact Card by default from a People search, change the Value Data for the turnonlegacygaldialog value to 0 or delete the Contactcard key.


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