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Contacts in Outlook should be organized by root directory method.

 
 
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      13th Nov 2005
Outlooks 2002 version 10.6514.6735
I use Outlooks extensively for both my business and personal activities. In
fact it's my lifeline. I am a entreprenuerial business development
specialist and community organizer, so I'm constantly meeting people. In
striving to organize my contacts using Outlooks, I've created an elaborate
directory tree.

Problem: I had to do it this way because the "Catagories" and "Contacts"
feature for each contact entry does not get tansfered when you export your
"back-ups" to a "pst" file.

Example: So if a contact entry is symultaneously; a "business contact", a
"Community contact", and a "Project contact", every time I do clean install
and import my back-ups--I end up having to make countless re-entries of the
contacts relationships... Which is prohibitive when you have over 700
contacts in your directory!

My Way around this: Is to creat a huge directry tree with all of sub
catagorties of my contacts. The problem is that a similar contact entered in
multiple folders on a differnt branches of the "tree" are recognized as
separate entries all together. So changes to "Shannon Doe's" information in
one folder will have to be made to all of the other "Shannon Doe" contact
entries...

I'm no Data base programmer but it seems to me that this could be done a
different/better way.

Now. don't get me wrong. Outlooks is already an awsome tool but this fix
would vastly improve the program!

Thank you

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      13th Nov 2005
you've posted this to the wrong group - this group is for Outlook BCM
extension / add-in.

there are methods to backup and transfer categories. I expect this to be
made easier in future outlook builds.


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> Outlooks 2002 version 10.6514.6735
> I use Outlooks extensively for both my business and personal activities.
> In
> fact it's my lifeline. I am a entreprenuerial business development
> specialist and community organizer, so I'm constantly meeting people. In
> striving to organize my contacts using Outlooks, I've created an elaborate
> directory tree.
>
> Problem: I had to do it this way because the "Catagories" and "Contacts"
> feature for each contact entry does not get tansfered when you export your
> "back-ups" to a "pst" file.
>
> Example: So if a contact entry is symultaneously; a "business contact", a
> "Community contact", and a "Project contact", every time I do clean
> install
> and import my back-ups--I end up having to make countless re-entries of
> the
> contacts relationships... Which is prohibitive when you have over 700
> contacts in your directory!
>
> My Way around this: Is to creat a huge directry tree with all of sub
> catagorties of my contacts. The problem is that a similar contact entered
> in
> multiple folders on a differnt branches of the "tree" are recognized as
> separate entries all together. So changes to "Shannon Doe's" information
> in
> one folder will have to be made to all of the other "Shannon Doe" contact
> entries...
>
> I'm no Data base programmer but it seems to me that this could be done a
> different/better way.
>
> Now. don't get me wrong. Outlooks is already an awsome tool but this fix
> would vastly improve the program!
>
> Thank you
>
> ----------------
> This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
> suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
> Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow
> this
> link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
> click "I Agree" in the message pane.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ic.outlook.bcm



 
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