How to have contacts highlighted when opening

[Joe Badham]

In Outlook 2003 when I click on contacts, I then must highlight a
contact before I can locate the contact I'm looking for by typing the
first character(s) of the name. In the previous version, as soon as I
opened the contact folder, the name of the first contact was
highlighted. Is there any way to get 2003 to perform the same way?
Thanks! Joe Badham

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Stop using the Outlook Today overlay for your root Folder.

 

[Joe Badham]

Russ, thanks for the response.

Stop using the Outlook Today overlay for your root Folder.

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by this.

I did change how outlook opens, so that it no longer opens to Outlook
Today and I notice that if I go into contacts before going to Outlook
Today I get the result I wanted. However, if I got to Outlook Today
and then back to contacts, I have the same problem.

Did you have something else in mind by your suggestion? I find
Outlook Today a helpful screen to have available, though I don't care
if it is the screen showing when Outlook opens.