Outlook should let me see distribution membership on contact info

[Kathleen]

Outlook 2003 does not allow the user to check if a contact is part of a
distribution list without going to the actual group. This feature was part
of older Outlook programs and is sorely missed by me, as I handle school and
community e-mail services with over 2,500 contacts.
--
Kathleen

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[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

I don't seem to remember that being part of any release of Outlook unless it
was possibly a feature of the Personal Address Book.

 

[Kathleen]

Microsoft Outlook 2000 is running on my desk top and has this feature. I
don't know what else to tell you, but I really miss this feature when using
my laptop, which runs 2003. There is another feature I miss, but should
probably post it separately.

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

Where are you seeing it? I'm curious

 

[Kathleen]

I go to the name in the address book and double click on it. The tabs that
come up are: Summary, Name, Home, Business, Personal, Other, NetMeeting,
Digital ID. I go to Other where the top dialog box has Notes and the box at
the bottom is titled "Group Membership." There it lists any groups of which
this individual is a member.

I also liked the way the old program allowed you to look at the address book
by last or first name. The new program only allows by first name and believe
me there are a lot of the Susans and not a lot of Czerwonkas. Also, I may
have to look through all of the known first names of members of a family to
find which name their subscription is under where it would be easier if I
could look under the last name.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I go to the name in the address book and double click on it. The
tabs that come up are: Summary, Name, Home, Business, Personal,
Other, NetMeeting, Digital ID. I go to Other where the top dialog box
has Notes and the box at the bottom is titled "Group Membership."
There it lists any groups of which this individual is a member.

This is because Outlook 2000 in Internet Mail Only mode actually used the
Windows Address Book, which has that feature. The Outlook Address Book
doesn't have that feature and Outlook 2002/2003 do not use the Windows
Address Book.

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

I think that's the Personal Address Book. You can sort the Outlook Address
Book by either First name or File As.

 

[Kathleen]

OK. I recommend that a patch be provided which would allow the new Outlook
programs to access the address book. (What is confusing to me is that I have
always used the address book in Outlook and no where else, so it is odd that
it would it be located in different software.)

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

It's more complicated than that. The WAB uses a completely different "group" mechanism from Outlook distribution lists.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

That's because you were never actually using Outlook. Your version was a
temporary incomplete version of Outlook that actually used Outlook Express
not Outlook for most of its functions including the address book.
Membership in a DL is not a Contact property, so that information cannot be
displayed in the Contact record.
Perhaps you could use Outlook Express instead since it seems to fit your
needs better. Lots of people find OE meets their needs better than Outlook.