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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Contacts / July 2006Help with Multiple Contacts Lists Pls
I have Outlook 2003 and in my personal folder list have the default "Contacts List" and also a list within the contacts 'file' I.E: it looks like this Contacts Nicks Contacts The active contacts list is Nick's contacts, in that this has all my entries, and the default Contacts list is empty. I can add new entries to the default list, but I cant import my "Nicks Contact" in to the default list. I want to do this, as I only need one contacts list. I can only delete "Nicks" Contacts list but cannot delet the default Contacts list. I can't even move the actvive list into the default. I need the default list as my active one, because when trying to sychronise my contacts to my PDA, by default, only the "Default Contacts" (empty one) is read. How can I just have the one list, or import "Nicks Contacts" in to the default contacts and therefore delete one of them? I know this sounds confusing, but I would appreciate some help with this. Thanks How did you manage to do this? This required end user activity. Outlook doesn't do this all by itself. Why wouldn't you just copy the contents of Nicks Contacts into your default folder, then delete the Nicks Contacts Folder?  SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] >I have Outlook 2003 and in my personal folder list have the default >"Contacts [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > Thanks Hi Russ This may originally happened when I imported a backup of the Outlook 2002 contacts in to a new installation 2003 Outlook. I can't quite remember, as I have put up with this for some time now. I can't copy the Nicks folder in to the default folder, because all that happens is another copy appears as "Nicks1". I then have: Contacts Nicks Contacts Nicks1 Contacts It just duplicates all the time. Really strange, as all I want to do is have one Contacts folder. There's no option to delete the default folder, just additional ones. > How did you manage to do this? This required end user activity. Outlook > doesn't do this all by itself. [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > > > Thanks Read my post again. You copy the contents, not the folder. Importing is never the correct way to transfer Outlook data. This is one reason why. SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > Hi Russ > [quoted text clipped - 50 lines] >> > >> > Thanks Russ Thanks for your help. Problem solved. I did move the contents of my contacts in to the default contacts. The only nag was having to block all 3,000 contacts manually to move them in. I couldn't find a command to automatically do this. Only "Copy" or "Move" folders (which duplicated the folders as you know) were the only options. Thanks anyway > Read my post again. You copy the contents, not the folder. > Importing is never the correct way to transfer Outlook data. This is one [quoted text clipped - 53 lines] > >> > > >> > Thanks The Edit menu contains the command to Move or Copy _to_ Folder, not move or copy the folder. SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > Russ > [quoted text clipped - 72 lines] >> >> > >> >> > Thanks |
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