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Since Microsoft "upgraded" Outlook Live a month or so ago, I've had problems editing details, such as email addresses and phone numbers, for people in my Contacts list. For instance, one contact's first name, last name, personal email, cell phone and two home phone numbers are editable: if I wanted to, I could put my cursor in the box and delete or type over them. But for some reason, the business number, which is no longer valid since the person is no longer employed, can't be deleted. The box is grayed out, and when I try to highlight the number with my mouse in order to delete it, the mouse doesn't work. This is true for other contacts in my list as well. Has anyone else had this baffling and frustrating problem?
Organizing and accessing contact information in Outlook.com
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Quite frankly they don't give a monkeys about us !
I've lost count of the hassles I've had since hotmail was replaced with this pile of dung .
When all your mail and contacts are tied up with it, it is a big deal to change, but I heartily regret the day I went with Hotmail.
If it's any compensation [!], G-mail keeps making everything more unuseable as well.
quite unbelievable that Microsoft are simply not paying any attention at all to our comments.
Im sure they must be losing a lot of customers.
Are they not reading this board, I wonder !!
Yeah, I originall posted this quite a while ago, and there has been not a single response from Microsoft. Not what I call support.
Same issues here. I'm a long-time Microsoft mail user and I use my outlook.com contacts list as my single master list of personal contacts, it is not linked to any social media or any other accounts, aside from the unavoidable being linked to Skype fiasco.
Certain contacts cannot be edited or removed at all as they are being pulled from my Skype contacts, and sometimes removing them from Skype works.
Certain contacts have common fields like Email and Phone that are not editable, greyed out and show 'recently emailed' underneath those fields. This is pretty frustrating stuff, you'd think in general that major production email software platforms would move forward as the years pass, not backward. Why on earth would I not be able to edit and control a contact that I created?
This thread also addresses it but doesn't offer any solutions that work:
I have the same issue. I love that Microsoft folks just ask more question. On my desktop, outlook live, people can not be edited.Old emails just appear in gray (they reference recent email) and can not be changed. Can you please provide some answers ... Hello Microsoft.