Outlook Contacts Not Showing Up In Skype
Outlook contacts not showing up in Skype has been a problem bugging me for a couple weeks but I have not had the time to look into it until tonight. I figured that it might be a bug or something with Skype since I recently upgraded however I was incorrect. For some reason when I turned on “Show Outlook Contacts” in Skype only two of my contacts were showing up. Luckily this was the case or it would have taken a lot longer to figure out.
The issue is that in my Skype setup (not sure if it is this way for all configurations) the numbers require a +1 to be in front of the area code. So for instance if you have a contact and the number is 502-123-1234 it will not show up in Skype unless you add a plus one for the number to show as +1502-123-1234. Below I describe a couple tips to convert all of your numbers a bit easier. There is probably a VB script out there that will do this easier but it was much easier to convert all of your Outlook contact numbers as I discuss below than manually editing each one.