If you're tied to Outlook, I don't have any suggestions. If you can switch to Gmail, I use a program called GSyncit to mirror contacts between my PC and my iPhone. The program also syncs calendar entries and notes.
On 9/22/16, R Van Lant <vanlant2...@msn.com> wrote: > Curious for best practices with managing and synching contacts across my > iPhone and windows based computers where I use Outlook to read mail and > manage email contacts. Until now, I would occasionally add phone numbers to > my phone directly. After I started including my work Outlook account on my > phone, my work contact would be visible, so I found it easier to add and > edit contacts on my work laptop in Outlook knowing they would show up in my > phone. This is great until the day that I no longer work at my company -- > which I am not currently planning. Before my home laptop died this summer, > I had personal contacts in Outlook on my home computer, but only used that > for capturing emails. When my laptop died, I had to have my iPhone pull in > my Hotmail contacts so that I could reach people. Now I see that I have > cases where I had entered a phone number in my phone, but there is a second > entry in Contacts from where an email address pulls in from Hotmail. If I > combine those two in my phone, does that mean that I would no longer have > access to the email address from Outlook on my personal computer? Or, is the > best practiced to go back and move the phone number entry into the entry > that comes over from Hotmail so that I maintain the entry in places via the > Hotmail link to my iPhone? If the recommendation is to always enter new > contacts on the laptop, what do you do when you are on the go and have a new > phone number to add? > > Robin > > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
