For the record, reread my posts. One of my other suggestions was to look at
Journaling since it was the only feature that had an icon like you describe.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Kevin Carlson" wrote in message
...
AND THAT'S A WRAP. You were right across the plate on the Journal thing.

Here's what happened. I've always kept journalling turned on. But I also
look at my contacts list in the 'phone list' view AND I remove many of the
unecessary columns (attachment, category, flag status, etc) just to make
the
page a little cleaner. So I got used to not seeing the journal status of
my
contacts.

Now, one of MVP Russ' suggestion was to run Outlook from the command line
with the ' / cleanvew' switch. This puts all of the normal columns back
up
on the phone list and resets all of the views to factory status. Well,
when
I look at the 'Journal' column in the refreshed phone list, there is a
check
box. If I check the check box, the Contact icon changes, adding the
circle
thingin (clock or Outlook icon, depending on your taste in these things).

So, PROBLEM SOLVED and thank you very much, ProfDD.

By the way, when you turn journalling off, get ready to take a coffee
break.
It takes a while. I also use Outlook Live!, so the whole thing takes
about
ten minutes.
--
Kevin Carlson


"ProfDD" wrote:

I am not sure that I am answering your question, nor that the question
is even fundamentally worth answering.

There were three: the ordinary contacts "rolodex" icon, the
distribution lists icon, and a rolodex icon with a little circle and a
yellow line. I creating an "Icon" view to inspect the icons in detail
and sorted by icon to see if I could reason about any common
characteristics. The little circle logo that I observed was a clock.
The yellow line was a little yellow pencil. A timed pencil. Hmmmm.

I then created a table view with just the icon, flag status, follow-up
status, and journal, sorted by icon. That revealed that the clock and
pencil icon corresponded to the contacts that had Journal turned on
(from an experiment I had initiated).

If we are talking about the same icon, then your problem is solved. If
not, the method I used for inspecting the icon and sorting by
interesting (neglected ?) fields might help. I may turn off
journalling and get a little performance boost, so it wasn't all wasted.