Hi Russ, thanks for the time.
I've got the Address Book Services running and configured. I also read the
link you supplied as well. Now I find that my contacts ARE listed, but only
if I specifically select contacts from the drop down list. While I can see
that this could be a feature if one has tons of different contact lists (and
I will, I'm a consultant, and automotive journalist, and running a small
company), I have NO CLUE why I don't get a superset of all my contacts if I
select the "All address lists" or "All Contacts" options. What don't I
understand about the word all? In fact I get NO listing at all, if I select
anything but the contacts list or one of the lists I've specifically created.
So OK, I'll accept this one as somewhat closed... But
1.1 How do I make the Contacts list (the only one with any addresses in it)
my default so I don't have to click on the address book, then go to contacts
to have it be any use? Also, since the contacts aren't in the top most level,
when I hit the "to" field, I get the blank list, then have to tell it to look
in "Contacts" and then select. It would be so nice if upper levels of these
listings included all of the lower levels, instead of nothing at all.... Oh
well.
2) Is now well explained to me.
3) How do I get Outlook to take every e-mail address I use and put it into a
different contacts list? That way I could harvest the e-mails at one time,
and sort them to the appropriate contact list based on how I use that name or
the like. Right now, the only way I see to do this is to open each e-mail (or
use the preview pane), left click on the name, and add it to my contacts
list.. This is a royal, time wasting PITA.
4) The link you provided somewhat cleared up my confusion on how contact
lists and the like work in Outlook. Let's just say I agree with the author
(if it was you, thanks for writing it) and I'll note that this is far from an
optimal arrangement. That's polite speak for FUBAR!
Once again, thank you for your time.
Matt
"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:
> It appears you have not yet configured the Outlook Address Book Service for
> your profile. Do so now:
> http://support.microsoft.com/default...Product=ol2002
>
> If you want to understand the various "address books" in Outlook, read the
> primer:
> http://home.indy.rr.com/russval/addressbook.htm
> --
> Russ Valentine
> [MVP-Outlook]
> "Matt Richter" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:22E8DDBA-4D2D-4570-9A56-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I'm sure that this is in here somewhere, but after several searches and
> > reading lots of threads, I can't for the life of me find the answers to my
> > questions, so here goes! Im using Outlook 2007 on XP SP2.
> > 1) When I click on "to" in a new e-mail window, I don't see any contacts
> > listed. All I get is some fields to enter and hit "go" to search.
> > 2) If I enter a name to search for, it doesn't find it.
> > 3) Is there a way to have Outlook automatically add any e-mail address I
> > send to into a contact folder called "new contacts" or something? Then I
> > can
> > move them to the correct directory as needed.
> > 4) What is the relationship between contact lists and the address book? I
> > can't figure it out, and for the life of me, don't understand why there's
> > a
> > difference, or why the configuration of the software requires so much work
> > for it to make any sense.
> >
> > This is a good start to the issues I'm having with Outlook addressing, I'm
> > sure that many of these have been answered, but I couldn't find the
> > threads
> > that pertain to them. A better search function for the support groups
> > would
> > be really helpfull too!
> >
> > Thanks for any that take the time to help...
> >
> > Matt
>
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