Is there hope for someone who uses this dialog a lot or can't right-click fast enough? A little.
(That's about as useful as a fifth wheel on a wagon. The only exception is for users with an Exchange mailbox: with contacts for people who are also in the GAL, you don’t have to be fast – the Open Outlook Properties command is always available, but only for your contacts who are also in the GAL. If you view the properties dialog and want to look at it a second time, you’ll need to restart Outlook. Once the command disappears from the menu, you’ll need to restart Outlook and try again. If the hovercard comes up before you right click on the address, the Open Outlook Properties command disappears.
In really old versions Outlook, double clicking on an email address brought up the dialog, while in Outlook 2010, you needed to right-click on the email address then select Outlook Properties from the menu or use the Options button on the hovercard and select Outlook Properties.Īlthough the Options button was removed from Outlook 2013’s hovercard, the Open Outlook Properties command is on the right-click menu, but you have to be really fast. In older versions of Outlook, you could click on a Contact’s email address to bring up a dialog that allowed you to always use Rich Text format, Plain Text format, or to let Outlook decide the best format when sending email or meeting and task requests to the address.
