Replying in OUTLOOK 2003

[Hartman's]

In outlook 2000 I had my contacts set in there own
catigories....i.e.> Contractors. Vendors. Parts.
Suppliers. Personal etc. When ever I went to address
emails or attempt to send a reply to an email that I
recived all of my organizational structure stayed as I had
originally set it up. It was easy to keep my contacts
straight and even easier to lookup contacts.. NOW with
Outlook 2003 I can see my contacts in the left pane in the
order I setup in outlook 2000 but when I click on the TO
button to the left of the address line on new or replied
emails it has all the contacts listed together without my
separation by catigories...This is both frustrating and
slows me down... Is there anyway to setup OUTLOOK 2003 so
it will always display my contacts in there assigned
folders so they stay separated so I only need to go to the
folder that contains my contacts for VENDORS or
CONTRACTORS etc etc etc???? HELP this is enough to make me
want to go back to OUTLOOK 2000.....

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

You lost me. Categories and Folders are not the same thing, yet you are
using the terms interchangeably. The Outlook Address Book has never sorted
by Categories. Could you explain more clearly what you were doing in Outlook
2000 and why you think it's changed in Outlook 2003? The Outlook Address
Book functions the same in these two versions.

 

[Hartman]

Under OUTLOOK 2000 we could setup our FOLDERS and have a
folder that might say, VENDORS... then as subfolders under
that we could have like CONCRETE and one that was BRICK
and one that would be labeled as STEEL etc... it would
always show up that way in the FOLDER LIST while I have my
email mode open... When we went to address an email we
would be able to click on the TO button on the email and
have it open up the contact list and it would still show
up like we had it in the FOLDER list... Now under OUTLOOK
2003 it can show up with FOLDERS and SUBFOLDERS under the
folders.. however when we click on TO in an email form it
will have all the emails we have in our contact list
bunched together without any regards to our structure
setup with CONCRETE vendors in one subfolder and BRICK
Vendors in there own subfolder and so on.... is that any
more understandable?

Thanks for any help you can give. I am about to loose
this sale of the MS OFFICE SB due to this little
problem... To the customer it is not a small problem.

JIM

-----Original Message-----
You lost me. Categories and Folders are not the same thing, yet you are
using the terms interchangeably. The Outlook Address Book has never sorted
by Categories. Could you explain more clearly what you were doing in Outlook
2000 and why you think it's changed in Outlook 2003? The Outlook Address
Book functions the same in these two versions.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

In outlook 2000 I had my contacts set in there own
catigories....i.e.> Contractors. Vendors. Parts.
Suppliers. Personal etc. When ever I went to address
emails or attempt to send a reply to an email that I
recived all of my organizational structure stayed as I had
originally set it up. It was easy to keep my contacts
straight and even easier to lookup contacts.. NOW with
Outlook 2003 I can see my contacts in the left pane in the
order I setup in outlook 2000 but when I click on the TO
button to the left of the address line on new or replied
emails it has all the contacts listed together without my
separation by catigories...This is both frustrating and
slows me down... Is there anyway to setup OUTLOOK 2003 so
it will always display my contacts in there assigned
folders so they stay separated so I only need to go to the
folder that contains my contacts for VENDORS or
CONTRACTORS etc etc etc???? HELP this is enough to make me
want to go back to OUTLOOK 2000.....

.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

The Outlook Address Book has not changed. Any Folder you enable as an
electronic Address Book will show up "Show Names from the" dropdown.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Under OUTLOOK 2000 we could setup our FOLDERS and have a
folder that might say, VENDORS... then as subfolders under
that we could have like CONCRETE and one that was BRICK
and one that would be labeled as STEEL etc... it would
always show up that way in the FOLDER LIST while I have my
email mode open... When we went to address an email we
would be able to click on the TO button on the email and
have it open up the contact list and it would still show
up like we had it in the FOLDER list... Now under OUTLOOK
2003 it can show up with FOLDERS and SUBFOLDERS under the
folders.. however when we click on TO in an email form it
will have all the emails we have in our contact list
bunched together without any regards to our structure
setup with CONCRETE vendors in one subfolder and BRICK
Vendors in there own subfolder and so on.... is that any
more understandable?

Thanks for any help you can give. I am about to loose
this sale of the MS OFFICE SB due to this little
problem... To the customer it is not a small problem.

JIM

-----Original Message-----
You lost me. Categories and Folders are not the same thing, yet you are
using the terms interchangeably. The Outlook Address Book has never sorted
by Categories. Could you explain more clearly what you were doing in Outlook
2000 and why you think it's changed in Outlook 2003? The Outlook Address
Book functions the same in these two versions.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

In outlook 2000 I had my contacts set in there own
catigories....i.e.> Contractors. Vendors. Parts.
Suppliers. Personal etc. When ever I went to address
emails or attempt to send a reply to an email that I
recived all of my organizational structure stayed as I had
originally set it up. It was easy to keep my contacts
straight and even easier to lookup contacts.. NOW with
Outlook 2003 I can see my contacts in the left pane in the
order I setup in outlook 2000 but when I click on the TO
button to the left of the address line on new or replied
emails it has all the contacts listed together without my
separation by catigories...This is both frustrating and
slows me down... Is there anyway to setup OUTLOOK 2003 so
it will always display my contacts in there assigned
folders so they stay separated so I only need to go to the
folder that contains my contacts for VENDORS or
CONTRACTORS etc etc etc???? HELP this is enough to make me
want to go back to OUTLOOK 2000.....

.