I have a particular contacts folder that I use extensively. It is
buried in a hierarchy of nested contact folders out of necessity, thus
I have to open a bunch of folders to get to it.

Similarly to the shortcuts supported in the Outlook Bar, can I put
some kind of "shortcut" at the same level as the 'root' (main) Contact
Folder when using Outlook Folder lists?

I don't want to use the the Outlook Bar (too big and fat)

Thanks

livetohike <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I have a particular contacts folder that I use extensively. It is
> buried in a hierarchy of nested contact folders out of necessity, thus
> I have to open a bunch of folders to get to it.
>
> Similarly to the shortcuts supported in the Outlook Bar, can I put
> some kind of "shortcut" at the same level as the 'root' (main) Contact
> Folder when using Outlook Folder lists?

Why not just move the buried contacts folder up to the level you want?
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

On Dec 7, 3:33 pm, "Brian Tillman" <tillman1...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> livetohike<moorma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have a particular contacts folder that I use extensively. It is
> > buried in a hierarchy of nested contact folders out of necessity, thus
> > I have to open a bunch of folders to get to it.
>
> > Similarly to the shortcuts supported in the Outlook Bar, can I put
> > some kind of "shortcut" at the same level as the 'root' (main) Contact
> > Folder when using Outlook Folder lists?
>
> Why not just move the buried contacts folder up to the level you want?
> --
> Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

I an effort at brevity I left out some important details.
I have a deep (as apposed to wide) hierarchy of hundreds of contacts.
At different times of the month I will work mostly with a given
folder. Constantly moving the 'folder of the month' to the top for
easy access, and then having to remember where it came from so I can
put it back would be cumbersome and likely lead to miss-filing.

If I could put a 'shortcut' at the root of the folder hierarchy while
leaving the original in place, I could simply blow the shortcut away
when I am done w/ that folder.

As I mentioned the Outlook Bar does what I want, I just don't like the
real estate it takes and am used to working w/ folder view.

Hope that clarifies.
Thanks

livetohike <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I an effort at brevity I left out some important details.
> I have a deep (as apposed to wide) hierarchy of hundreds of contacts.
> At different times of the month I will work mostly with a given
> folder. Constantly moving the 'folder of the month' to the top for
> easy access, and then having to remember where it came from so I can
> put it back would be cumbersome and likely lead to miss-filing.

My suggestion remains to widen you hierarchy and lose some of the depth.

> If I could put a 'shortcut' at the root of the folder hierarchy while
> leaving the original in place, I could simply blow the shortcut away
> when I am done w/ that folder.

You can put shortcuts in the Navigation Pane's Shortcuts view.
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]