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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Contacts / September 2006Outlook should let me see distribution membership on contact info
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.  SignatureKathleen 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. > 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. 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. SignatureKathleen > 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. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > and > > community e-mail services with over 2,500 contacts. Where are you seeing it? I'm curious > 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. 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. SignatureKathleen > Where are you seeing it? I'm curious > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > my laptop, which runs 2003. There is another feature I miss, but should > > probably post it separately. > 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. SignatureBrian Tillman I think that's the Personal Address Book. You can sort the Outlook Address Book by either First name or File As. >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, [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > find which name their subscription is under where it would be easier if I > could look under the last name. 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.) SignatureKathleen > I think that's the Personal Address Book. You can sort the Outlook Address > Book by either First name or File As. [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > find which name their subscription is under where it would be easier if I > > could look under the last name. It's more complicated than that. The WAB uses a completely different "group" mechanism from Outlook distribution lists. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > 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 [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] >> > find which name their subscription is under where it would be easier if I >> > could look under the last name. 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. SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > OK. I recommend that a patch be provided which would allow the new > Outlook [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] >> > I >> > could look under the last name. |
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