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How do I move contacts from one folder to another folder?
When I am creating a mail message and I select the "To..." button, the
default Contacts folder does not have any contacts. To see any contacts, I have to select another folder from the "Show Names from the..." dropdown. Once I select "Doug's Contacts" from the dropdown, then I see my contact list. How do move the contacts from "Doug's Contacts" to Outlook's default Contacts folder? Thank you, Doug |
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What version of Outlook do you have? Also, are you on a network or stand
alone? "Doug" wrote: When I am creating a mail message and I select the "To..." button, the default Contacts folder does not have any contacts. To see any contacts, I have to select another folder from the "Show Names from the..." dropdown. Once I select "Doug's Contacts" from the dropdown, then I see my contact list. How do move the contacts from "Doug's Contacts" to Outlook's default Contacts folder? Thank you, Doug |
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You can easily copy the contents of one Contacts folder to another.
You have more problems than that, however. You might want to figure out how you managed to corrupt the connection between your Outlook Address Book and your Contacts Folders. Use the Folder View of Outlook to examine your entire Folder hierarchy to see how many Contact Folders you have in this profile. Go to Tools E-mail accounts View or change existing directories or address books Outlook Address Book Change. to examine how you have your Outlook Address Book's display currently configured. Always post your Outlook version to keep us from having to guess. None of this will apply to the older unsupported versions of Outlook. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Doug" wrote in message ... When I am creating a mail message and I select the "To..." button, the default Contacts folder does not have any contacts. To see any contacts, I have to select another folder from the "Show Names from the..." dropdown. Once I select "Doug's Contacts" from the dropdown, then I see my contact list. How do move the contacts from "Doug's Contacts" to Outlook's default Contacts folder? Thank you, Doug |
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Vicky, I have Outlook 2003 and use it in stand-alone mode.
Thanks, Doug "Vicky" wrote: What version of Outlook do you have? Also, are you on a network or stand alone? "Doug" wrote: When I am creating a mail message and I select the "To..." button, the default Contacts folder does not have any contacts. To see any contacts, I have to select another folder from the "Show Names from the..." dropdown. Once I select "Doug's Contacts" from the dropdown, then I see my contact list. How do move the contacts from "Doug's Contacts" to Outlook's default Contacts folder? Thank you, Doug |
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Russ:
Hi. The ToolsE-mailView or change existing directories sequence listed "Contacts" and "Doug's Contacts." I removed Contacts, but the "To..." in creating an email still shows "Contacts" as the default. By the way, my folder structure shows "Doug's New Outlook Folders" as the top folder. Under that top folder my "Contacts" folder is labeled just "Contacts." I would like to setup my Outlook so that when I select "To..." Outlook displays "Doug's Contacts" as the default. Thanks, Doug Using Outlook 2003 "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: You can easily copy the contents of one Contacts folder to another. You have more problems than that, however. You might want to figure out how you managed to corrupt the connection between your Outlook Address Book and your Contacts Folders. Use the Folder View of Outlook to examine your entire Folder hierarchy to see how many Contact Folders you have in this profile. Go to Tools E-mail accounts View or change existing directories or address books Outlook Address Book Change. to examine how you have your Outlook Address Book's display currently configured. Always post your Outlook version to keep us from having to guess. None of this will apply to the older unsupported versions of Outlook. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Doug" wrote in message ... When I am creating a mail message and I select the "To..." button, the default Contacts folder does not have any contacts. To see any contacts, I have to select another folder from the "Show Names from the..." dropdown. Once I select "Doug's Contacts" from the dropdown, then I see my contact list. How do move the contacts from "Doug's Contacts" to Outlook's default Contacts folder? Thank you, Doug |
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If you removed the reference to the empty folder and you only have one
Contacts folder, then you've done all you need to. Just restart Outlook to see the effect. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Doug" wrote in message ... Russ: Hi. The ToolsE-mailView or change existing directories sequence listed "Contacts" and "Doug's Contacts." I removed Contacts, but the "To..." in creating an email still shows "Contacts" as the default. By the way, my folder structure shows "Doug's New Outlook Folders" as the top folder. Under that top folder my "Contacts" folder is labeled just "Contacts." I would like to setup my Outlook so that when I select "To..." Outlook displays "Doug's Contacts" as the default. Thanks, Doug Using Outlook 2003 "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: You can easily copy the contents of one Contacts folder to another. You have more problems than that, however. You might want to figure out how you managed to corrupt the connection between your Outlook Address Book and your Contacts Folders. Use the Folder View of Outlook to examine your entire Folder hierarchy to see how many Contact Folders you have in this profile. Go to Tools accounts View or change existing directories or address books Outlook Address Book Change. to examine how you have your Outlook Address Book's display currently configured. Always post your Outlook version to keep us from having to guess. None of this will apply to the older unsupported versions of Outlook. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Doug" wrote in message ... When I am creating a mail message and I select the "To..." button, the default Contacts folder does not have any contacts. To see any contacts, I have to select another folder from the "Show Names from the..." dropdown. Once I select "Doug's Contacts" from the dropdown, then I see my contact list. How do move the contacts from "Doug's Contacts" to Outlook's default Contacts folder? Thank you, Doug |
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Russ, I went from bad to worse. Now, when I select Newemail and To...
"Contacts" is still the default, but I don't any longer have "Doug's Contacts" available. So, from the "To..." I cannot select any contacts. However, Contacts are still listed in the Contacts Folder, under the main folder, "Doug's New Outlook Folders." Any suggestions? Thanks, Doug "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: If you removed the reference to the empty folder and you only have one Contacts folder, then you've done all you need to. Just restart Outlook to see the effect. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Doug" wrote in message ... Russ: Hi. The ToolsE-mailView or change existing directories sequence listed "Contacts" and "Doug's Contacts." I removed Contacts, but the "To..." in creating an email still shows "Contacts" as the default. By the way, my folder structure shows "Doug's New Outlook Folders" as the top folder. Under that top folder my "Contacts" folder is labeled just "Contacts." I would like to setup my Outlook so that when I select "To..." Outlook displays "Doug's Contacts" as the default. Thanks, Doug Using Outlook 2003 "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: You can easily copy the contents of one Contacts folder to another. You have more problems than that, however. You might want to figure out how you managed to corrupt the connection between your Outlook Address Book and your Contacts Folders. Use the Folder View of Outlook to examine your entire Folder hierarchy to see how many Contact Folders you have in this profile. Go to Tools accounts View or change existing directories or address books Outlook Address Book Change. to examine how you have your Outlook Address Book's display currently configured. Always post your Outlook version to keep us from having to guess. None of this will apply to the older unsupported versions of Outlook. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Doug" wrote in message ... When I am creating a mail message and I select the "To..." button, the default Contacts folder does not have any contacts. To see any contacts, I have to select another folder from the "Show Names from the..." dropdown. Once I select "Doug's Contacts" from the dropdown, then I see my contact list. How do move the contacts from "Doug's Contacts" to Outlook's default Contacts folder? Thank you, Doug |
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I already gave you my suggestion.
Start at the beginning. You're the only one who know how this all got fouled up. Examine your Folder hierarchy so that you know exactly where your Contacts reside and how many Contacts Folders you have. Configure your folder hierarchy correctly: the majority of your Contacts would normally reside in your default Contacts Folder, but you can create as many subfolders of it as you want. The names of the folders that you have told us mean nothing to us. They are unique to your installation. Once you have that done, it will be easy to get the Outlook Address Book to display whatever Contact Folders you want and in any order. But you need to do that part first. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Doug" wrote in message ... Russ, I went from bad to worse. Now, when I select Newemail and To... "Contacts" is still the default, but I don't any longer have "Doug's Contacts" available. So, from the "To..." I cannot select any contacts. However, Contacts are still listed in the Contacts Folder, under the main folder, "Doug's New Outlook Folders." Any suggestions? Thanks, Doug "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: If you removed the reference to the empty folder and you only have one Contacts folder, then you've done all you need to. Just restart Outlook to see the effect. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Doug" wrote in message ... Russ: Hi. The ToolsE-mailView or change existing directories sequence listed "Contacts" and "Doug's Contacts." I removed Contacts, but the "To..." in creating an email still shows "Contacts" as the default. By the way, my folder structure shows "Doug's New Outlook Folders" as the top folder. Under that top folder my "Contacts" folder is labeled just "Contacts." I would like to setup my Outlook so that when I select "To..." Outlook displays "Doug's Contacts" as the default. Thanks, Doug Using Outlook 2003 "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: You can easily copy the contents of one Contacts folder to another. You have more problems than that, however. You might want to figure out how you managed to corrupt the connection between your Outlook Address Book and your Contacts Folders. Use the Folder View of Outlook to examine your entire Folder hierarchy to see how many Contact Folders you have in this profile. Go to Tools accounts View or change existing directories or address books Outlook Address Book Change. to examine how you have your Outlook Address Book's display currently configured. Always post your Outlook version to keep us from having to guess. None of this will apply to the older unsupported versions of Outlook. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Doug" wrote in message ... When I am creating a mail message and I select the "To..." button, the default Contacts folder does not have any contacts. To see any contacts, I have to select another folder from the "Show Names from the..." dropdown. Once I select "Doug's Contacts" from the dropdown, then I see my contact list. How do move the contacts from "Doug's Contacts" to Outlook's default Contacts folder? Thank you, Doug |
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Russ, I have one contacts folder and it has all of my contacts. However,
when I select "To..." no folders with contacts are displayed and the Contacts folder is not in the drop down. I simply want to get my folder, named Contacts, in the drop-down as the default Contacts folder. I guess it's not so simple. Thanks, Doug "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: I already gave you my suggestion. Start at the beginning. You're the only one who know how this all got fouled up. Examine your Folder hierarchy so that you know exactly where your Contacts reside and how many Contacts Folders you have. Configure your folder hierarchy correctly: the majority of your Contacts would normally reside in your default Contacts Folder, but you can create as many subfolders of it as you want. The names of the folders that you have told us mean nothing to us. They are unique to your installation. Once you have that done, it will be easy to get the Outlook Address Book to display whatever Contact Folders you want and in any order. But you need to do that part first. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Doug" wrote in message ... Russ, I went from bad to worse. Now, when I select Newemail and To... "Contacts" is still the default, but I don't any longer have "Doug's Contacts" available. So, from the "To..." I cannot select any contacts. However, Contacts are still listed in the Contacts Folder, under the main folder, "Doug's New Outlook Folders." Any suggestions? Thanks, Doug "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: If you removed the reference to the empty folder and you only have one Contacts folder, then you've done all you need to. Just restart Outlook to see the effect. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Doug" wrote in message ... Russ: Hi. The ToolsE-mailView or change existing directories sequence listed "Contacts" and "Doug's Contacts." I removed Contacts, but the "To..." in creating an email still shows "Contacts" as the default. By the way, my folder structure shows "Doug's New Outlook Folders" as the top folder. Under that top folder my "Contacts" folder is labeled just "Contacts." I would like to setup my Outlook so that when I select "To..." Outlook displays "Doug's Contacts" as the default. Thanks, Doug Using Outlook 2003 "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: You can easily copy the contents of one Contacts folder to another. You have more problems than that, however. You might want to figure out how you managed to corrupt the connection between your Outlook Address Book and your Contacts Folders. Use the Folder View of Outlook to examine your entire Folder hierarchy to see how many Contact Folders you have in this profile. Go to Tools accounts View or change existing directories or address books Outlook Address Book Change. to examine how you have your Outlook Address Book's display currently configured. Always post your Outlook version to keep us from having to guess. None of this will apply to the older unsupported versions of Outlook. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Doug" wrote in message ... When I am creating a mail message and I select the "To..." button, the default Contacts folder does not have any contacts. To see any contacts, I have to select another folder from the "Show Names from the..." dropdown. Once I select "Doug's Contacts" from the dropdown, then I see my contact list. How do move the contacts from "Doug's Contacts" to Outlook's default Contacts folder? Thank you, Doug |
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If removing the invalid references to Contacts Folders and adding in the
valid ones did not work, then the best thing to do is to remove the Outlook Address Book Service entirely from your profile, restart Outlook, then add it back. That will reset all connections and not jeopardize any data. I bet you imported or overwrote some Outlook data files in the past. That usually corrupts the Outlook Address Book Service beyond repair. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Doug" wrote in message ... Russ, I have one contacts folder and it has all of my contacts. However, when I select "To..." no folders with contacts are displayed and the Contacts folder is not in the drop down. I simply want to get my folder, named Contacts, in the drop-down as the default Contacts folder. I guess it's not so simple. Thanks, Doug "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: I already gave you my suggestion. Start at the beginning. You're the only one who know how this all got fouled up. Examine your Folder hierarchy so that you know exactly where your Contacts reside and how many Contacts Folders you have. Configure your folder hierarchy correctly: the majority of your Contacts would normally reside in your default Contacts Folder, but you can create as many subfolders of it as you want. The names of the folders that you have told us mean nothing to us. They are unique to your installation. Once you have that done, it will be easy to get the Outlook Address Book to display whatever Contact Folders you want and in any order. But you need to do that part first. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Doug" wrote in message ... Russ, I went from bad to worse. Now, when I select Newemail and To... "Contacts" is still the default, but I don't any longer have "Doug's Contacts" available. So, from the "To..." I cannot select any contacts. However, Contacts are still listed in the Contacts Folder, under the main folder, "Doug's New Outlook Folders." Any suggestions? Thanks, Doug "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: If you removed the reference to the empty folder and you only have one Contacts folder, then you've done all you need to. Just restart Outlook to see the effect. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Doug" wrote in message ... Russ: Hi. The ToolsE-mailView or change existing directories sequence listed "Contacts" and "Doug's Contacts." I removed Contacts, but the "To..." in creating an email still shows "Contacts" as the default. By the way, my folder structure shows "Doug's New Outlook Folders" as the top folder. Under that top folder my "Contacts" folder is labeled just "Contacts." I would like to setup my Outlook so that when I select "To..." Outlook displays "Doug's Contacts" as the default. Thanks, Doug Using Outlook 2003 "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: You can easily copy the contents of one Contacts folder to another. You have more problems than that, however. You might want to figure out how you managed to corrupt the connection between your Outlook Address Book and your Contacts Folders. Use the Folder View of Outlook to examine your entire Folder hierarchy to see how many Contact Folders you have in this profile. Go to Tools accounts View or change existing directories or address books Outlook Address Book Change. to examine how you have your Outlook Address Book's display currently configured. Always post your Outlook version to keep us from having to guess. None of this will apply to the older unsupported versions of Outlook. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Doug" wrote in message ... When I am creating a mail message and I select the "To..." button, the default Contacts folder does not have any contacts. To see any contacts, I have to select another folder from the "Show Names from the..." dropdown. Once I select "Doug's Contacts" from the dropdown, then I see my contact list. How do move the contacts from "Doug's Contacts" to Outlook's default Contacts folder? Thank you, Doug |
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