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Old March 30th, 2010, 12:45 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Lee
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The pc has Office/Outlook 2003 with one user. It was originally configured,
for some reason to do with importing, with several data files. To simplify I
moved all the messages within Outlook then hid the extra data files in Data
File Management. The problem is that there are two Contacts lists. I have it
so that one pops up when the Address Book icon is pressed but when I do
Rt-Clk Add to Contacts it gets added to the other one, which I assume is
part of one of the other .pst files. When I look at the dialogue that is
supposed to display a list of Contact folders none is displayed. To further
complicate matters I managed to rename the "wrong" Contacts to Contacts2 and
now it doesn't appear in the Address Book dropdown any more but it still
appears as default in the Navigation Pane. I am not worried that much about
preserving the contents, I just want a single Contacts list. I kind of thing
that the "wrong" one is actually the right one, and, well I am confused now
and need a clear head to suggest a straight path to righting this ship.

Lee

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Old March 30th, 2010, 03:05 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Russ Valentine
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Default Duplicate Contacts mess

Why don't you just remove the invalid entry from the list the address book
displays? Seems simple enough.
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"Lee" wrote in message
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The pc has Office/Outlook 2003 with one user. It was originally
configured, for some reason to do with importing, with several data files.
To simplify I moved all the messages within Outlook then hid the extra
data files in Data File Management. The problem is that there are two
Contacts lists. I have it so that one pops up when the Address Book icon
is pressed but when I do Rt-Clk Add to Contacts it gets added to the other
one, which I assume is part of one of the other .pst files. When I look at
the dialogue that is supposed to display a list of Contact folders none is
displayed. To further complicate matters I managed to rename the "wrong"
Contacts to Contacts2 and now it doesn't appear in the Address Book
dropdown any more but it still appears as default in the Navigation Pane.
I am not worried that much about preserving the contents, I just want a
single Contacts list. I kind of thing that the "wrong" one is actually the
right one, and, well I am confused now and need a clear head to suggest a
straight path to righting this ship.

Lee


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Old March 30th, 2010, 03:53 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Lee
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Default Duplicate Contacts mess

"Russ Valentine" wrote in message
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Why don't you just remove the invalid entry from the list the address book
displays? Seems simple enough.
--
Russ Valentine


How Russ? I'm not in front of the machine right now and I run O2007 so I
can't check, but I don't recall an option to remove in that dialogue. The
only option there is to remove individual contacts.



"Lee" wrote in message
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The pc has Office/Outlook 2003 with one user. It was originally
configured, for some reason to do with importing, with several data
files. To simplify I moved all the messages within Outlook then hid the
extra data files in Data File Management. The problem is that there are
two Contacts lists. I have it so that one pops up when the Address Book
icon is pressed but when I do Rt-Clk Add to Contacts it gets added to the
other one, which I assume is part of one of the other .pst files. When I
look at the dialogue that is supposed to display a list of Contact
folders none is displayed. To further complicate matters I managed to
rename the "wrong" Contacts to Contacts2 and now it doesn't appear in the
Address Book dropdown any more but it still appears as default in the
Navigation Pane. I am not worried that much about preserving the
contents, I just want a single Contacts list. I kind of thing that the
"wrong" one is actually the right one, and, well I am confused now and
need a clear head to suggest a straight path to righting this ship.

Lee



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Old March 30th, 2010, 11:37 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Russ Valentine
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Default Duplicate Contacts mess

Open the Address Book Tools Options...

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Russ Valentine
"Lee" wrote in message
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"Russ Valentine" wrote in message
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Why don't you just remove the invalid entry from the list the address
book displays? Seems simple enough.
--
Russ Valentine


How Russ? I'm not in front of the machine right now and I run O2007 so I
can't check, but I don't recall an option to remove in that dialogue. The
only option there is to remove individual contacts.



"Lee" wrote in message
...
The pc has Office/Outlook 2003 with one user. It was originally
configured, for some reason to do with importing, with several data
files. To simplify I moved all the messages within Outlook then hid the
extra data files in Data File Management. The problem is that there are
two Contacts lists. I have it so that one pops up when the Address Book
icon is pressed but when I do Rt-Clk Add to Contacts it gets added to
the other one, which I assume is part of one of the other .pst files.
When I look at the dialogue that is supposed to display a list of
Contact folders none is displayed. To further complicate matters I
managed to rename the "wrong" Contacts to Contacts2 and now it doesn't
appear in the Address Book dropdown any more but it still appears as
default in the Navigation Pane. I am not worried that much about
preserving the contents, I just want a single Contacts list. I kind of
thing that the "wrong" one is actually the right one, and, well I am
confused now and need a clear head to suggest a straight path to
righting this ship.

Lee




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Old March 31st, 2010, 08:55 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Lee
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Default Duplicate Contacts mess

I must check that again when I go back. I believe that dialogue is now
empty.

"Russ Valentine" wrote in message
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Open the Address Book Tools Options...

--
Russ Valentine
"Lee" wrote in message
...
"Russ Valentine" wrote in message
...
Why don't you just remove the invalid entry from the list the address
book displays? Seems simple enough.
--
Russ Valentine


How Russ? I'm not in front of the machine right now and I run O2007 so I
can't check, but I don't recall an option to remove in that dialogue. The
only option there is to remove individual contacts.



"Lee" wrote in message
...
The pc has Office/Outlook 2003 with one user. It was originally
configured, for some reason to do with importing, with several data
files. To simplify I moved all the messages within Outlook then hid the
extra data files in Data File Management. The problem is that there are
two Contacts lists. I have it so that one pops up when the Address Book
icon is pressed but when I do Rt-Clk Add to Contacts it gets added to
the other one, which I assume is part of one of the other .pst files.
When I look at the dialogue that is supposed to display a list of
Contact folders none is displayed. To further complicate matters I
managed to rename the "wrong" Contacts to Contacts2 and now it doesn't
appear in the Address Book dropdown any more but it still appears as
default in the Navigation Pane. I am not worried that much about
preserving the contents, I just want a single Contacts list. I kind of
thing that the "wrong" one is actually the right one, and, well I am
confused now and need a clear head to suggest a straight path to
righting this ship.

Lee




 




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