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Nathan1967 - 08 Nov 2005 13:35 GMT

Hi! I'd really appreciate some help with what, I suspect, is a simple question:

How do I count filtered contacts?

When the contacts are unfiltered - i.e. the whole of the contact list is
displayed - it says in the grey information bar (at the bottom) 292 items.
That's how many addresses are in my contact list at the moment (though it is
going to be much larger when I've finished).

When the contacts are filtered - e.g. according to category - the grey
information bar displays "filter applied" as well as 292 items. When only 4
items are displayed, this isn't much of a problem - as I can count to four

:-) But as soon as my customer contact list is finished, I'm going to be

reaping filtered results of 200-300 addresses. Do I have to count them by
hand?

Any help would be appreciated and I'm prepared to kick myself if this was a
stupid question.

Many thanks,
Nathan

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Diane Poremsky [MVP] - 08 Nov 2005 17:56 GMT

you could copy the rows and paste into notepad (or excel) and use it's line
count... it's not as quick as looking at the status bar, but beats doing 1,
2, 3...

http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/copy_data.htm

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> Hi! I'd really appreciate some help with what, I suspect, is a simple
> question:
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> Many thanks,
> Nathan

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Nathan1967 - 09 Nov 2005 08:42 GMT

Thank you, Diane. Yes, it is a little tedious but it does work thanks to your
link (I had been copying them in such a way that I was only inserting a small
pdf-type-logo into Exel - but by selecting them all using Control-A rather
than marking them with the shift key worked a treat.

Perhaps the programmers will think of this for newer versions... it would
surely be no trouble at all to display, for example, 18/296 (where 18 are the
filtered results of 296 entries in the database).

Still, in the meantime, I'll be using your method: so thank you very much!

Regards,
Nathan

> you could copy the rows and paste into notepad (or excel) and use it's line
> count... it's not as quick as looking at the status bar, but beats doing 1,
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> > Many thanks,
> > Nathan

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