In the Contacts folder, change to the Phone List view (so that you have a
table) then Group by Private - use the Group By box (on the advanced
toolbar) and drag the column header "private" into the Group By box.

 Put one person in the Private group, then you can select as many as you
want and drag them into the Private group.

 Judy Gleeson [MVP Outlook]
 Acorn Training and Consulting
 www.acorntraining.com.au

 Everyone - turn on your Advanced Toolbars and learn how to use the Field
Chooser and Group by Box!!

 >I have a new Outlook add-in for managing sales opportunities.  When it is
 > installed it looks at the Outlook 2003 contacts folder and imports all
 > contacts that are not marked Private.  None of my contacts are marked
 > private, so it imported a huge number of contacts that I did not want in
 > this application.
 >
 > Is there a way to select a range of contacts and mark them as private in
a
 > single operation?  This would save a tremendous amount of time as I only
 > need to add my client contacts to this program, not my many other
contacts
 > in various categories.  Any help would be appreciated.
 >
 > Bob N.
 >
 >