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Customizing Lookup
I am a longtime ACT! user and one of the features I am missing is the
customizable lookup feature. For example, when I am going to a city on business I can create a specific lookup for that particular city. It will then create a list of all my customers in that city and only that city. ACT! also allows you to create a lookup from any field but it is this one that I miss the most. I tried to create a new "view" in Outlook by setting Country/Region first, then State/Prov and City but all this does is list all 1,600 contacts this way and it is not even sorted alphabetically by city. Any ideas? |
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Why aren't you using Advanced Find?
-- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Slider76" wrote in message ... I am a longtime ACT! user and one of the features I am missing is the customizable lookup feature. For example, when I am going to a city on business I can create a specific lookup for that particular city. It will then create a list of all my customers in that city and only that city. ACT! also allows you to create a lookup from any field but it is this one that I miss the most. I tried to create a new "view" in Outlook by setting Country/Region first, then State/Prov and City but all this does is list all 1,600 contacts this way and it is not even sorted alphabetically by city. Any ideas? |
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If you want to organize by city, then create a new view that groups all contacts by city.
-- Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54 "Slider76" wrote in message ... I am a longtime ACT! user and one of the features I am missing is the customizable lookup feature. For example, when I am going to a city on business I can create a specific lookup for that particular city. It will then create a list of all my customers in that city and only that city. ACT! also allows you to create a lookup from any field but it is this one that I miss the most. I tried to create a new "view" in Outlook by setting Country/Region first, then State/Prov and City but all this does is list all 1,600 contacts this way and it is not even sorted alphabetically by city. Any ideas? |
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Thanks Russ, that worked. It's obvious that I need to spend a lot more time
learning the features of Outlook. As mentioned, I have been using ACT! for a number of years now and never really spent any amount of time with Outlook. "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Why aren't you using Advanced Find? -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Slider76" wrote in message ... I am a longtime ACT! user and one of the features I am missing is the customizable lookup feature. For example, when I am going to a city on business I can create a specific lookup for that particular city. It will then create a list of all my customers in that city and only that city. ACT! also allows you to create a lookup from any field but it is this one that I miss the most. I tried to create a new "view" in Outlook by setting Country/Region first, then State/Prov and City but all this does is list all 1,600 contacts this way and it is not even sorted alphabetically by city. Any ideas? |
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Customizing Lookup
There's a lot in Outlook that isn't very intuitive. I usually find the most
useful features by doing the opposite of what I thought I should. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Slider76" wrote in message ... Thanks Russ, that worked. It's obvious that I need to spend a lot more time learning the features of Outlook. As mentioned, I have been using ACT! for a number of years now and never really spent any amount of time with Outlook. "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Why aren't you using Advanced Find? -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Slider76" wrote in message ... I am a longtime ACT! user and one of the features I am missing is the customizable lookup feature. For example, when I am going to a city on business I can create a specific lookup for that particular city. It will then create a list of all my customers in that city and only that city. ACT! also allows you to create a lookup from any field but it is this one that I miss the most. I tried to create a new "view" in Outlook by setting Country/Region first, then State/Prov and City but all this does is list all 1,600 contacts this way and it is not even sorted alphabetically by city. Any ideas? |
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