default to Business Contacts upon opening CONTACTS

[Guest]

I have all my contacts filed under "Business Contacts in Business Contact
Manager", therefore I would like to have that folder open automatically when
I choose CONTACTS (the primary folder with MAIL, CALENDAR and TASKS toolbar).
Right now it opens to the regular Contacts folder, which is empty.

 

[Guy]

Under Tools you will find the Address Book. Open it and then click on the
Tools menu and select options. In here, you can control the order of the
contact folders in Outlook.

 

[Guest]

I have done that, however, when I close and reopen Outlook and click on
Contacts, the (now) second choice, Contacts, is still the default and opens,
which is the empty folder. The first is now BCM, but I still have to click on
it to view my contacts.
Any suggestions? Thanks, Kim

 

[Guy]

I think I may have misunderstood you. There is no way to make your
traditional contacts folder point to you business contact manager contacts.
They are separate. I use the contacts folder for personal contacts only (not
business related) and the accounts and business contacts for my business
related contacts and management.

 

[Guest]

Hi Guy, what she was saying is...there a way of making Business Contact
Manager the item that comes up first when selecting the contacts folder. I
realize that contacts are separate from business contacts but what, cannot
speak for her, i'd like to have is Business Contact Manager the MAIN not
always having to click it on...

Please let me know if you need clarification.

Teresa

 

[Guest]

Teresa & KJ,
When you have the contacts window open, near the top in the left window pane
is your list of contact folders, right-click on the one you want to open by
default and select "Move Up in List". You will have to do this until it is
the top of the list, then it will be the folder that opens first.

Neil.

 

[Guest]

Neil,
Thanks for the reply. The "move up in list" feature does not work as a
default to open BCM automatically when I re-open Outlook. I moved it to the
top of the list ages ago and it still opens regular Contacts each time. I
don't even understand the benefit of the "move up/move down" feature unless
someone has a really long list of contact folders! -Kim

 

[Guest]

Kim,
Yea sorry 'bout that, I was sure when I moved a folder to the top that it
was then the default but later yesterday I noticed it wasn't.

I agree with you that it seems a little strange that it does not work that
way.

Neil.

 

[soeyken]

If I understand correct I was facing the same click frustrations so I
wrote a short VBS script to bring the end user straigt to the Accounts
folder:

copy this text in a new text file with Notepad and give it a nice name
with a vbs extension f.i. OpenAccounts.vbs

'------------------------------------------------------
Dim myolApp 'As Outlook.Application
Dim myNameSpace 'As Outlook.NameSpace
Dim myFolder 'As Outlook.MAPIFolder
Dim myExplorer 'As Outlook.Explorer

set myolApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set myNameSpace = myolApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set myFolder = myNameSpace.Folders("Business Contact Manager")
Set myFolder = myFolder.Folders("Accounts") 'change this to "Business
Contacts" if you prefer

Set myExplorer = myFolder.GetExplorer()
myExplorer.Display()

set myolApp = Nothing
Set myNameSpace = Nothing
Set myFolder = Nothing
Set myFolder = Nothing
'------------------------------------------------------

When you click upon or create a shortcut to this vbs you immediately
should see your accounts/contacts.

I hope this helps you too, let me know if it doesn't ;o)

 

[Alan]

If I understand correct I was facing the same click frustrations so I
wrote a short VBS script to bring the end user straigt to the Accounts
folder:

copy this text in a new text file with Notepad and give it a nice name
with a vbs extension f.i. OpenAccounts.vbs

'------------------------------------------------------
Dim myolApp 'As Outlook.Application
Dim myNameSpace 'As Outlook.NameSpace
Dim myFolder 'As Outlook.MAPIFolder
Dim myExplorer 'As Outlook.Explorer

set myolApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set myNameSpace = myolApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set myFolder = myNameSpace.Folders("Business Contact Manager")
Set myFolder = myFolder.Folders("Accounts") 'change this to "Business
Contacts" if you prefer

Set myExplorer = myFolder.GetExplorer()
myExplorer.Display()

set myolApp = Nothing
Set myNameSpace = Nothing
Set myFolder = Nothing
Set myFolder = Nothing
'------------------------------------------------------

When you click upon or create a shortcut to this vbs you immediately
should see your accounts/contacts.

I hope this helps you too, let me know if it doesn't ;o)

When you have the contacts window open, near the top in the left window pane

 

[Stu]

Did anybody ever come up with a proper solution to this? I can't get the vbs
script to work, but even if I could it is not the ideal solution.

I have tried everything, but just cannot get the Outlook 2007 Contact folder
to default to BCM.

 

[AnnieBrown]

I don't understand what you mean - can you plese be more specific?
Annie