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Sarah - 13 Feb 2004 16:51 GMT

I've been compiling an email list for my job in Outlook XP at my house. I need to send this list to the computer at work, and I can't do it. I tried Russ Valentine's suggestion (message in rtf format, attach list as item). This doesn't work, nor does exporting it, nor does exporting it do a disk, then importing it on their computer..

Surely I am not the first person to need to share a distribution list!!! There must be a way!!!

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David King - 13 Feb 2004 17:52 GMT

Export your contacts into a .pst folder. Send the file
to your work address and import that file into Outlook.
You can have only one set of contacts within Outlook so
it will over write what you already have at work.

>-----Original Message-----
>I've been compiling an email list for my job in Outlook XP at my house. I need to send this list to the computer

at work, and I can't do it. I tried Russ Valentine's
suggestion (message in rtf format, attach list as item).
This doesn't work, nor does exporting it, nor does
exporting it do a disk, then importing it on their
computer...

>Surely I am not the first person to need to share a distribution list!!! There must be a way!!!
>.

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Sarah - 13 Feb 2004 18:36 GMT

The message I get when I try to import the pst file I've sent is that I must define properties for the file prior to use. Then the office assistant tells me that "access denied.

Hope that additional information sheds some light. I'd love more ideas. Thank you!!!

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] - 15 Feb 2004 01:15 GMT

Incorrect - you can have as many contact folders as you want. You just have
to create additional contact folders and give them distinct names. Then you
can select which contact folder you want your contacts to go to.

As for Sarah, it sounds like you have your .pst file on a CD or other
read-only media. Copy the .pst file to the hard drive, right click on it
and under properties, remove the check mark from the read-only property.

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