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I suggest that you use a single Contacts folder.
To show which sales people are responsible for each Contact, make a field called "sales person" and put the relevant name against each Contact. You can then make views that are filtered according to the Salesperson field. If you have v2003, it's on the Advanced Toolbar | Current view window | Define Views. This way you are only keeping a single database and it will be easier to keep it up to date. I hope this helps you at least a little bit! Judy Gleeson MVP Outlook Outlook trainer and author of Productiv_IT with Outlook www.acorntraining.com.au Canberra, Australia "I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow." (Woodrow Wilson) "Brian Tillman" wrote in message ... Duke wrote: Well, I'll tell you what Brian. I was actually praying that you would not respond to this posting. I was hoping that someone might address my question and not just try to parse my words. You have been absolutely no help and rather, a hindrance. Plese remove this from your list to harrass. And I answered you quite clearly in your original thread, explaining the terminology as I went. Check back in that thread. -- Brian Tillman |
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I would guess your actual question to be as follows, then:
"I created a second Contacts Folder in Outlook. Sometimes the same Contact exists in both Folders. Is there a way to synchronize these 2 Contact Records?" Answer: Outlook does not synchronize separate folders. Users who find they have that need should consider using Categories to organize their Contacts rather than separate folders. http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/oloabcat.htm -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Duke" wrote in message ... Guess I must be in the twilight zone Russ. When I open outlook, it call the tab to the left "Contacts". When I click on "Contacts" it opens up a screen that is labeled "Contacts". When I look to the file tree to the left on this screen it shows the title of my file as "Contacts". Sorry must be me being confused again. Thanks for your enlightenment and help. I feel much better now. -Duke- "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Congratulations. You have now failed to convey yourself clearly in every post. You have managed to insult everyone who has tried to help you. Why is it so difficult for you to explain what you mean? For the last time: "contact list" means nothing to the rest of us. What it means to you remains anyone's guess. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Duke" wrote in message ... Boy, I'll tell you... you guys are a trip. I've used this forum on many occasions and always received excellent help until now. Look... if I knew all the nomenclature and vagaries of the program I probably wouldn't be asking these questions now would I? I'll try this one more time so as to try to satisfy you. I really can't believe your parsing of things.... and you think I'm dense? I think you should look in the mirror. When I open Outlook..... there are "tabs" on the left that list "mail". "cal;endar" now pay attention..... "contacts". "tasks". Now seee if you can stay with me here cause it gets a little tricky.... I actually created a ..... CONTACTS list with names addresses, phone numbers etc.... you should try it some time.... it's a pretty cool feature of this program! And then, just to confuse you, I made another list and another and another ( evil aren't I ) and each of these were copied from the first..... is this getting clearer? The first list.... was all the names .... the subsequent lists were some of the names .... are you staying with me???.... Hope it's comprehensible..... I only had 16 years of Jesuit training and it's hard sometimes for me to organize my thoughts. So the thought is.... gee... if I change info in the main list... is there a way that it will link the other list that contains the same info and update it too? Is this rather patient enough for your sensibilities? I surely hope so. It wiould be nice to get a reasonable answer rather than all this BS. Brian.... Russ.... I think you need to get out into the real world a little bit more..... you may understand the language a bit better.... All the best- -Duke- "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: But all you did was repost the same question you did before. Your question is incomprehensible to anyone but you because you have used your own terms that have no meaning to anyone else. Brian rather patiently explained that fact to you and asked you for the clarification that was needed. Why would you not simply provide the answers we all need to understand your question? -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Duke" wrote in message ... Well, I'll tell you what Brian. I was actually praying that you would not respond to this posting. I was hoping that someone might address my question and not just try to parse my words. You have been absolutely no help and rather, a hindrance. Plese remove this from your list to harrass. "Brian Tillman" wrote: Duke wrote: I have a "master" list of my salespeople's contacts as a "contacts" file or a pst file. I also have each persons contacts seperated into a list of their own. So, I have them all together and then have seperated them per each salesperson. Is there any way to link them so that a change I make to the master will be reflected in the other lists? No need to ask more than once. -- Brian Tillman |
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