Thank you, Russ. It looks like I can't have what I want; no automatic
duplication of contacts but in another format. Export is no problem,
but importing into another program can be a PITA. I'm thinking to use
FileMaker Pro as the other program. It's easy to prevent duplicates.
BTW, does Outlook 2002 have a way to reveal the DATE on which a
contact was added or last modified? That would save me a lot of
trouble.
Lady Dungeness
Crabby, but Great Legs!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 06:26:27 -0400, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]"
|Look at the other formats to which Outlook can export (File > Import and
|Export...) and decide which is the best for you. Then export your
Contacts
|Folder to that file type.
|Do not consider this a reliable backup of your Contacts, however, and do
not
|try to restore your Contacts from it. To backup up your Contacts, backup
|your PST file.
|--
|Russ Valentine
|[MVP-Outlook]
||>I want to keep a second file which is automatically updated,
|> containing all my contacts. I want the second file to be accessible
|> to people who don't use Outlook. It could be an Excel file, or some
|> kind of stand-alone address book; it could be in FileMaker Pro
|> database; etc. In short, I don't want my contacts to be dependent
|> upon just one application. And I don't want recovery of the contacts,
|> in the event of a crash, to also reveal the contents of emails and
|> such that are also stored in *.pst.
|>
|> Thank you.
|>
|>
|>
|> Lady Dungeness
|> Crabby, but Great Legs!
|>
|>
|>
|> On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 01:38:53 -0700, "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
|>
|> |Outlook's "Address Book" is a virtual view of the Contacts folder.
Any
|> contact you add to your contacts folder that includes an electronic
|> address (email or fax) will automatically populate the Address book
since
|> the AB pulls it information from the Contacts folder.
|> |
|> |If this is not what you are looking for, please explain in more detail
|> what is lacking.
|> |
|> |--?
|> |Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
|> |
|> |Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|> |unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|> |reading.
|> |
|> |After furious head scratching, Lady Dungeness asked:
|> |
|> || Ugh. I had a bad feeling ... but I had to go there. Ughly.
|> ||
|> || So what I want is this:
|> ||
|> || Use Contacts as my main place for names and phones and addresses
etc.
|> ||
|> || Have a separate, stand-alone "Address Book" that is a duplicate of
the
|> || Contacts, and that can be automatically updated from within Outlook.
|> || I'd rather not have to do the export>import routine, if possible.
|> ||
|> || Question: Can I get what I want?
|> ||
|> || Lady D
|> ||
|> ||
|> || |> ||| You don't even want to ask
Microsoft has so overused and abused
|> ||| the term "address book" that no one can figure out quite what it
is.
|> ||| The answer is, "it depends."
|> ||| Here's an overview of all of them. You'll see what I mean:
|> |||
http://home.indy.rr.com/russval/addressbook.htm
|> |||
|> ||| --
|> ||| Russ Valentine
|> ||| [MVP-Outlook]
|> ||| message |> |||| I've been reading the postings, learning much. I use Outlook
2002.
|> |||| What is
|> |||| the difference between Address Book and Contacts? Would Address
|> |||| Book be available to me outside of Outlook? Could it be updated
|> |||| from within Outlook? (Like the OE WAB can be a stand-alone).
|> ||||
|> |||| --
|> |||| Lady Dungeness
|> |||| Crabby, but Great Legs!
|
