Outlook will search all Contacts Folders enabled as email address books
until it finds a match. It will not keep searching other folders once it has
found a match. If you think your installation isn't doing that, then reset
the Outlook Address Book by removing and re-adding the service to the
profile. Re-enable each folder you want searched.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Lordcatalien" wrote in message
...
As I stated (in the subject of this thread), the "Look up Contact"
function
is Not finding Other Address Books.

1. Receive an email.
2. I right-click the sender
3. I click "Look up Contact"

If the contact is in a different folder than outlook contacts...

4. I get an error that no contacts w/ that address are found.



"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Explain what receiving an email has to do with Contacts Lookup.
Your post is unclear. What isn't happening that you think should?
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Lordcatalien" wrote in message
...
I'm sure this has been posted a number of times. I've seen a bunch of
posts
about it but am unable to find a solution.

When I receive an email from a contact I have in an address book (but
not
the default "Contacts" address book from Outlook), it doesn't search
the
other address books.

I'm not using Exchange. I'm on Outlook 2003.

Can someone please let me know how to make "Look up Contact" override
the
default of only checking the "Contacts" address book, so I can look in
the
other address books I have ("Business", "Family", "Personal", etc.).

These books are enabled as Outlook Address Books in the settings.

I saw somewhere that, by default, Outlook won't check the other books
to
conserve on time/memory or something...I don't want this active.

Please help.

Thanks!