Contact address display

[ErikJan]

Using Outlook 2013. I'm getting two different displays of an address for an outlook contact.

One is (I want it that way):
Street ##
Postal code City
Country

The other is (no country is displayed):
Street #
City
Postal code

The odd thing is that both addresses are entered in exactly the same way!! I have that for more contacts (left the displayed part, right the entry boxes).

Country.png

No country.png

[HansV]

Have you changed your country settings in the Windows control panel in the time between entering one of those contacts and the other?

[ErikJan]

No, but the contacts might have been edited / updated / changed by various sync programs over the years. I thought about that but it still doesn't make sense. Should I just manually create new contacts for the 'wrong ones'? I hope there's a better way... (I looked at the all fields display but nothing jumped out immediately)

[HansV]

Does it really bother you?

[ErikJan]

Being a perfectionist? Yes, tremendously ;-)

Seriously? Yes, I find it illogical and hope there's some sort of root cause for this behaviour...

[HansV]

Ordinarily, Outlook only displays the country if it is different from the location set in the Region control panel. What country have you set there?

[ErikJan]

Netherlands

[StuartR]

Could one of them have synchronized a country name that isn't an EXACT match for the one in the Outlook dialog box (for example with a trailing space)?

[ErikJan]

How would I see (and correct) that?

Also note that in the 'bad' one, the city comes on a separate line before the postal code. The 'right' one has the postal code and city on one line.

I do believe we might be heading in the right direction however...

[StuartR]

Try changing JUST the country name to something different, save it and then change it back to Netherlands. It can't hurt

[ErikJan]

Stopped Outlook, changed country name & applied, started Outlook, looked at my contacts: no changes.
Stopped Outlook, changed back country name, stated Outlook, looked at my contacts: no changes.

[ErikJan]

Interesting, I have a fix but it makes no sense...

If I manually format box #1 the way I like it (inside that box) and then I click box #2; the latter still looks exactly the same but now the display follows what I typed in box #1...

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[StuartR]

Strange

[DaveA]

Look for a "space" before and/or after the country name!

[Rudi]

This is probably not a fix for the initial cause, but if you are bothered by the countries being inconsistent, try this advice to clean up your contacts country entry.