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I found something else to hate about office 2007 recently as I attempted to add a contact to Outlook, this time on a newly configured laptop.

Like I usually would, I right clicked on the e-mail address of the person who sent me the message, and chose “Add to Contacts”. I added the necessary information, and immediately upon attempting to save, I was greeted with this dialog box asking me to insert the area code of my location, which I had no use for.

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When I attempted to cancel, the dialog box simply opened again, forcing me to enter the zip code. When I read the secondary dialog box more closely, it actually says “some applications will respond to canceling this box by immediately reposting it”.

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Apparently, “some applications” would include Microsoft Outlook 2007, so anyone running a computer without an active dialup modem, (umm – like most people these days) will see this message.

It’s pretty funny to me that they would create a custom error message warning us of the potential problem I may have by canceling the action, as opposed to just fixing it.

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