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[Kevy Baby]

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:

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.

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!