There's really no right way or wrong way to organizing Contacts. It all
depends on your personal needs. You might want to look over a comparison of
the pros and cons of multiple Contact folders VS Categories here and see
which will suit your needs better:
http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/oloabcat.htm

I'm never one to urge users onto new versions because change is always
difficult and new versions are never as trouble free as Microsoft would like
to think. Nevertheless, if searches are an important part of how you use
Outlook, you will like Outlook 2007.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"jwb" wrote in message
...
Either of your suggestions are good ones. I'll look at outlook 07, I'm
not
sure what else there is to it and what it cost to do so.

I could use categories, no reason not too, other than I started the other
way, because I didn't know any better.

Thanks, as usual you are a great resource and help.

jwb

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Not that I know of. That's one of the drawbacks to creating multiple
Contact
Folders. Might there be a better way to organize your Contacts, like
using
Categories for example?
I don't know how inclined you are to upgrade to Office 2007, but you will
find Outlook's search functions markedly improved there once you do.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"jwb" wrote in message
...
I have multiple 'contact' folders. I use the 'look for ______ search in
_____" function all the time to locate contacts.

However, I must continue to 'pull down' the 'search in' window and
select
"choose folders... search subfolders" so that outlook searches all the
contact folders I have to find a contact.

This gets old the 20th time per day.

Is there a better way? Is there a way to have that box stay checked by
default?

Thanks,
JWB