Thanks, Alan, for explaining what I had unknowingly done with the hijack and for your input to my question. I didn't realize about the hidden links so thougth this was a good way to grab the group email address since I'd lost it in my contacts.
On 9/22/2016 11:43 AM, Alan Lemly wrote: Robin, I can't answer your question but I'd kindly ask you to please not reply to an existing message and then delete the subject and message body as if you were starting a new thread. This is called thread hijacking and though it might appear to you as if you've started a new post, there are hidden links to the previous thread that ties your new subject post to it. However, those of us who read this list by thread will see your subject but the other five messages in the thread will be about the subject you hijacked. I noticed that you hijacked two different threads and wanted to explain this so you could avoid it in the future. To start a new thread, you need to create a brand new message as opposed to replying to an existing one and deleting its content. Thanks. Alan Lemly Sent from my iPhone On Sep 22, 2016, at 12:16 PM, R Van Lant <vanlant2...@msn.com<mailto: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. 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