This is just the dumbest ass thing: I did some cleanup work on my Outlook address book, including adding address, phone, fax, etc. I exported the database to a .CSV file and deleted all contacts in my Outlook Address Book (archiving the original file before deleting of course!), did all the work in Excel, re-saved to .CSV, and imported back in to Outlook. It was a great way to make wholesale updates.
However, after I did this, fax numbers kept showing up as email addresses when I was entering addresses in an email. After some digging on the internets, I found
this:
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Outlook considers fax numbers to be valid e-mail addresses. If you want to be able to send both e-mails and faxes from Outlook, there's no solution to this issue.
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There are ways around it (I am just going to add an "F" before the fax number which should prevent it from being thought of as a valid email. But this is just plain silly!