If you’re like me you prefer the old style Outlook contact dialog box over the new style. The old-style (left) presented a concise interface that made the best use of space on the screen & didn’t require scrolling. And it remained on the screen by default if you left the dialog, versus disappearing. And even though the new-style is more powerful in displaying things like Source contact info from different sources, if you dwell primarily in an Active Directory/Exchange environment, the old way might be preferable to you too.
It turns out there’s a registry fix to force the old style Contacts dialog box: (You’ll need to create both the Key and the Value in the registry through REGEDIT.EXE)
- Key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\Contactcard
Value name:
turnonlegacygaldialog
Value type:
REG_DWORD
Value:
1
Restart Outlook and you’ll find that every time you double click on a contact, the old-style Contact window appears.
Alternatively you can cut & paste the following into a text file called Retrocontactcard.reg, then double click it to have it added to your registry:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\Contactcard]
"turnonlegacygaldialog"=dword:00000001