Multiple Contacts Sub-folders

[Reda Hanna]

I receive a lot of e-mails from different vendors.

I used Outlook 2002, were I have created subfolders under
my Contacts folders to identify the different Vedors &
Suppliers ...

The problem is when I receive an e-mail from a vendor and
I want to check whether I have his e-mail or not, I right-
click on the e-mail address and from the menu I select
Lookup Contact ... Outlook only searches the Root Folder
and not the subfolders ... And if I click on Add Contact,
it will be added under the Contacts root regardless of my
sub-folder structure ...

Is there a way to search through multiple Contacts Sub-
folders when Looking up a e-mail address?

 

[Patricia Cardoza - [MVP Outlook]]

Not using the behavior you're trying. However, why not just use categories
in one contacts folder rather than using multiple contacts folders. It can
often work better as you only have to look in one place. You can view your
contacts by category so you still see the groupings you've set up.

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Patricia Cardoza
Outlook MVP

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[Reda Hanna]

Thank you for your reply ...

Actually I am using the Categories too ... To give you a
little background of the size of Contacts that I am
dealing with is almost 38,000 Contacts ... The response
is extreemly slow if you have all 38,000 contacts under
the Contacts folder, but dividing them into Sub-folders
will ease managing them and also when I need to Export a
specific sub-folder for e-mailing purposes ...

Thanks again,

reda

 

[Patricia Cardoza - [MVP Outlook]]

Ah, ok. That's true, speed would definitely be a problem. The simple find
won't work on multiple contact folders. Sorry.

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Patricia Cardoza
Outlook MVP

Author, Special Edition Using Microsoft Outlook 2003

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