November 19th, 2009, 11:59 PM
posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
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Hidden Contacts
"Russ Valentine" wrote:
Since there are so many others who can understand and reproduce your problem
with the meager information you provide, where are their answers?
I give up. If you cannot provide the information I requested, I cannot help
you.
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Russ Valentine
"Frank J" wrote in message
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If you read my 1st comments, I point out that by hidden, I mean that you
can
go to that when you veiw the contacts, not all are visible. You can,
however,
make a search for the contact and it will be found and be able to view the
contact information. if you do a search for another contact that should
show
in the list of contacts, it will also show up on the search. Those "hidden
contacts' will not show up with doing a search and then only in the search
results.
I can't understand why others understand what I am saying and you cannot
Frank J
"Russ Valentine" wrote:
Some general things you can try until we can understand your issue
better:
since there is no such thing as "hidden contacts" in Outlook, it's more
likely that you have contacts in more places than you realize, especially
since you synch with an iPhone. Use Folder List view to get a complete
view
of your folder hierarchy and see if Contacts are in more than one place.
Also, make sure you aren't confusing what you see in your autocompletion
cache with Contacts--they're not the same.
--
Russ Valentine
"Frank J" wrote in message
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I still don't understand what the problem is or why you don't understand
what
I am talking about. If you open outlook select contacts, you get a list
of
contacts. you can then select the tab "view" and select current view
and
then
select how the contacts are listed ("Phone List", "By Category", B\"By
Company", etc.). I any of the veiws selected, the hidden contacts are
still
hidden.
I can't find any better way to explain it.
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Frank J
"Russ Valentine" wrote:
It's OK if you don't know the proper terms. But if you use your own
terms,
at least explain what you mean by them so we can figure out what your
question is.
In your case we would need to know in what view you are seeing
"several
Outlook Address Books" and what you mean by that.
The problem that most people face in this regard is in the address
book
view
of Outlook, which may contain several outdated references to Contacts
Folder
that are no longer valid. Is that what your problem is?
If so, you would remove invalid references to Contacts Folders from
the
address book view he Tools E-mail accounts View or change
existing
directories or address books Outlook Address Book Change…
If your problem is something else, then state more clearly what it is.
Keep
in mind that there is no separate address book in Outlook, only an
address
book view of your Contacts Folders.
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Russ Valentine
"gail99" wrote in message
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I too am having a similar problem: In Outlook 2003 there are several
Outlook
Address Books with contacts in each book. Many of the address books
have
lost
contacts - completely gone. I can not see them in either the Folder
List
or
the Contact Folder views. They were not deleted nor archived. They
are
just
gone. I have seen other posts with this same problem, but not found
any
answers given. Please help. And Russ, please don't slap me around
for
not
know the precise Outlook terms - you are supposed to help us not
make
us
feel
stupid. thanks
"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:
We have no idea what you mean by "contact list." There is no such
term
used
in conjunction with Outlook. Do you mean your Contacts Folder? If
so,
which
view? Do you mean your address book view? Do you mean something
else?
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Frank J" wrote in message
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Sorry did not send all info you requested. I thought I was clear.
I
am
using
outlook (2007) and some of the contacts do not show on the
contact
list
in
outlook using any of the viewing formats available. The total
number
of
contacts shown on the list is 79. However I have my iphone linked
with
Outlook and the the list in the phone shows 99 contacts. I have
done
a
search
in outlook for a few of the contacts with success. They contimue
to
be
hidden
in the outlook list until I do a search, delete the contact and
re-enter
them
as a new contact.
Please be more specific as to what you mean by "data store".
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Frank J
"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:
Missing from where?
Clarify your post with a complete and accurate description of
your
problem.
So far it contains none. Include your data store and number of
Contact
Folders.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Frank J" wrote in message
news
I realized recently that some of my contacts are missing. I
have
tried
all
types of views with the same results. I can do a search and
find
them.
I
did
delete one of such contacts and reneneted it and now it shows
in
the
list.
The synced list in my iphone is correct - all contacts
properly
shown
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Frank J
I have the same problem that is being expressed here, except I started a distribution list and without warning I could no longer add names to it and the addressbook window would not show all of the names in my contact window. I have wasted a lot of time trying to get this finished
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