Viewing contacts as couples not individuals

[Ashley]

I want to know if there is a way to view (and / or enter information)
contacts as couples instead of individuals.
In case I’m not clear on what I want to do, I will explain exactly what I
need.

I use my outlook contact list to keep track of everyone who attends the
church (I’m the admin assistant). For a couple, I have separate contact
cards, ("Bob Jones "and "Sue Jones") because if I don’t necessarily want to
have one person as the main contact. I would like to have one contact, maybe
just "Bob and Sue Jones" or "Jones Family" and be able to put both of their
information in there. I know that under a contact you can put the spouses
name under details, but I want the spouse’s information to be as detailed as
the main, without having to create 2 cards... or possibly creating one file
"Jones" that has a tab for Sue and a Tab for Bob.

I played around with creating my own forms, however, they make it difficult
because my Pastor and Assoc. Pastor use Macs, and I need to be able to send
them vCards... if I create my own custom form, the info doesn’t translate the
same to them.

If this doesn’t make sense, please ask questions, this issue has been making
me crazy!

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

I use my outlook contact list to keep track of everyone who attends the
church (I’m the admin assistant). For a couple, I have separate contact
cards, ("Bob Jones "and "Sue Jones") because if I don’t necessarily want
to
have one person as the main contact. I would like to have one contact,
maybe
just "Bob and Sue Jones" or "Jones Family" and be able to put both of
their
information in there.

Outlook is not well-suited to that. There are many such applications for
use by parishes, however. Google can find them for you.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=+parish++family++contact++software