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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Contacts / February 2005Outlook Contact Manager: Account vs Company Name???
I am using Outlook CRM and I have read over the Help and viewed the Tour a few times and I cannot see the significant differance between what and when to add an "Account", or to just add a "Company Name" to a a "Contact"? Thanks, Kevin Murphy A Microsoft Product user since 1988 You mean you are using Business Contact Manager? The newsgroup for that product is microsoft.public.outlook.bcm. You can use an account to make it easy to view all contacts, opportunities, history related to a single company.  SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx >I am using Outlook CRM and I have read over the Help and viewed the Tour a > few times and I cannot see the significant differance between what and [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Kevin Murphy > A Microsoft Product user since 1988 Sue, Thanks for the response. I understand that an Account can group Contacts, but also a Company Indentification is also a logical grouping for Contacts. It seems redundant that you would choose a Company for Contact and then also an Account. Still a little puzzled? Thanks, Kevin Murphy > You mean you are using Business Contact Manager? The newsgroup for that > product is microsoft.public.outlook.bcm. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Kevin Murphy > > A Microsoft Product user since 1988 It's not redundant at all, because you can't assume that the contact's company and the account are the same. Here's an example: Let's say you run a web site and have a lot of advertisers. Some advertisers do their own media buys, while others outsource it to an ad agency. The ad agency contact would have their own Company name, but might be stored in BCM with a pointer to the Account for the actual advertiser. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > Sue, > Thanks for the response. [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] >> > Kevin Murphy >> > A Microsoft Product user since 1988 |
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