Avoid double contacs (OL2000)

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Alexandru Sarbu

Hi,

I'm currently storing my OL-contacts like I would in Explorer: I have for
every project and every category a subdirectory, to wich I copy the matching
contacts. Of course, so I have thousands of contacts that are double or even
more.

I probably don't need to tell, that when trying to update a contact that
makes it a lot harder.

Now I was thinking how to re-structurate my contacts, to avoid this thing,
but I haven't yet a sure idea how.

The problem is that I (and the others in the office) need that
one-click-project-selection.

I was thinking to keep all contacts in a directory and work with categories,
but getting the the right filter on is so far much to slow, and when I work
with the e-mail adressbook I would probably go completly nuts.

Has anyone an idea if:

1. ) you can copy a link to a contact in another directory, instead copying
the entire contact ( or something like that )
2. ) you could have Filters on-click-activated like you acces a directory
and not get all e-mail-adresses shown at the same time in the adressbook?
3. ) there is another possibility to achieve ( in OL2000 ) what I'm aiming

Thanks
Alex
 
Using categories is the way most people get around these issues. The biggest
drawback there is that the Outlook Address Book cannot be sorted by
category. So most users work with a filtered or sorted view of the Contacts
Folder.
You can compare the pros and cons of categories VS multiple subfolders here:
http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/oloabcat.htm
 
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