Great, I have a file called Work Contacts.pst on my computer. When I
right
click on that file, there is no option to call it an email address book
in
its properties. When I navigate to that file and do a right click,
there
are
two tabs, a general and summary, neither which offer the option of
calling
this an address book. How about an exact, sequence by sequence answer?
:
You had many points, most of them unclear.
You can show any folder you want in the address book view by simply
enabling that folder as an email address book in its properties.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Russ,
I appreciate your assistance, but you are missing the point or I am
missing
the point. What I want is to click on the address book icon and
have
two
files listed - Contacts and Work Contacts. How do I make this
happen.
Just
opening the pst file doesn't make it and if I am supposed to at that
point
copy all 1200 contacts, where do I copy them? How do I accomplish
what
I
stated in my second sentence above?
:
You should never use "import" to transfer Outlook data. Your
Outlook
data
already exists in an Outlook data file. You simply open that file
in
Outlook
and copy what you want from it. If you want to place these Contacts
in
a
separate folder, then by all means, feel free to do so.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
When I put them on my work laptop, there were no contacts in
Outlook
so
I
could simply import them in. However, as I indicated in my
original
posting,
my home Outlook already has a Contacts file and I do not want to
overwrite
it
- I want two separately identifiable Contacts files. When I did
this
on
the
work laptop, I had imported to the check box that said "Import
items
into
the
same folder in ... Personal Folders" However, if I do that this
time
on
my
home pc, I believe I will just overwrite the Contacts I already
have
on
the
home pc. I want to be able to flip back and forth in Outlook on
my
home
pc
from my home contacts (Contacts) to work contacts (Work Contacts)
somehow.
How do I do this?
:
If you brought them with you, why wouldn't you just use the same
method
in
reverse to take them with you? They are stored on your employers
Exchange
Server, right?
No Outlook data is ever stored in an address book. Contacts are
only
stored
in Contact Folders in an Exchange mailbox or local data file.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
They are my contacts (employers contacts were kept in CRM
system)- I
brought
them with me and I will take them with me.
:
Have you asked your employer? Those contacts belong to your
employer.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
I have a home system that I use Outlook on as my mail
client.
I
have
approx.
30 contacts on this system. I have a work system where I
have
approx.
1200
contacts. I am leaving my current employment so I want to
move
my
1200
contacts from my work Outlook to my home Outlook (so I
still
have
access
to
them), but I don't want to add them to my existing Contacts
file,
nor
do
I
want the work one to replace my home one. What can I do?
On
my
work
Outlook, when I click on the address book, I see a global
address
list
in
a
drop down box that when "dropped down", show Outlook
Address
Book
at
the
top,
followed by Contacts (as a subheading under Outlook Address
Book),
followed
by Global Address List, etc., Can I somehow have my work
contacts
show
up
in
a list that I could then select?