Outlook 2007 Address Book

[Chris 1-9]

I've just installed Outlook 2007 and it's imported my address book from
Outlook 2003 as a single list of contacts/addresses with 150 names! This is
too unweildy of course, so I want to divide these up into about 6 or 8
separate groups according to the contact nature. The help advice online does
give methods of creating sub-folders but I can't get either of them to work -
would appreciate any workarounds please.

 

[Gordon]

I've just installed Outlook 2007 and it's imported my address book from
Outlook 2003 as a single list of contacts/addresses with 150 names! This
is
too unweildy of course, so I want to divide these up into about 6 or 8
separate groups according to the contact nature. The help advice online
does
give methods of creating sub-folders but I can't get either of them to
work -
would appreciate any workarounds please.

Use Categories. Create the Categories you want, then you apply one or more
Categories to an individual Contact. You can apply one Category to multiple
Contacts (AFAIR) by selecting all the contacts and then right-clicking and
select "Categorize".

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Subfolders are not a good use for just 150 contacts. Use Categories to
"group" them. You can filters and custom views to show just the contacts
within a group.

What methods did online help tell you to use that didn't work?
See http://www.slipstick.com/tutorials/folder/folder.htm for the method that
does work.

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