How updating THE SAME CONTACT in both Contacts and BCM?

[Guest]

Microsoft says:

"You should continue to use Outlook for your personal contacts while using
Business Contact Manager for Outlook to store information about your business
contacts. If you have been using Outlook to store both types of contacts, you
can copy or move the business contacts into Business Contact Manager for
Outlook. "

This - as far as I understand - will result in me having THE SAME CONTACT in
both my contacts folders (Contacts and BCM), which of course creates updating
problems. I suppose I am not the only one who has FRIENDS and BUSINESS
CONTACTS at the same time.

The solution is probably to ONLY use BCM, right?

Any problems there? What about Notes? .. as it is today they are the
Contacts Notes, not the BCM Notes in the Navigation pane... etc..

Anybody?? What to do???????

 

[kchieff]

Well, I think the operative phrase here is in the first paragraph -
"you can COPY or MOVE..."

SO, if you COPY, yes, you'll have the same contact in both places, and
if you MOVE, you won't.

It would appear to me that your best bet is to MOVE your business
contacts over to BCM and LEAVE your personal contacts in Outlook
Contacts.

 

[Guest]

Hi Kchieff,

thanks for answer, but what I really wanted to solve is if I have the same
person in both contact folders. If I change, let's say, the business phone in
one place I have to remember to change BOTH PLACES.. which probably will end
up in a mess... as I may easily forget to update in BOTH PLACES.. See???

Or do you mean that I shall change in BCM and then drag it over to my
contacts folder afterwards, so in this way "update/copy over" ..? I will then
fear to lose info/linke etc. during this process... Huh???