Whenever I look at an e-mail in Outlook 2011 for Mac, weather in my inbox, in the message view, or even when composing, Outlook hides the e-mail address and replaces it with the "real name" field from the e-mail.
This is infuriating – I have the same name at home and at work, my Dad has the same name as me, and spammers can put things in the real name field to make them sound like a legit business.
How can I disable this behaviour, and get it to display the actual e-mail address first?
(if it can display addresses as something like Robert Munro <name@example.com>, that would be ideal).
Best Answer
One easy-but-slow method is the double-hover: put the mouse cursor on the name field and a contact 'hint' pops up, again with the name and some options - hover on this name again, and the email address is revealed.
I cannot fathom the stupidity of routinely masking this information: people have multiple addresses, multiple people have the same name, spammers disguise themselves, etc. etc. It really is infuriating.