Contacts Organization Help

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Chris McDermitt

Hello Got a problem with Outlook 2003 Contacts, I have set up Sub folders
iunder the Contact tabs to seperate certain contacts. When I try and Copy
one of those to a New Subfolder it does not allow me to. If for instance I
have sub folder Catalog ( for contacts that recieve catalogs) and I want to
copy it to Newsletter sub folder that I have created it will copy to a sub
folder names catalog when I try and rename it to newsletter it deletes it
all.


I hope I have made it clear if not please let me know and I will try again.


Chris
 
I can't really follow what you're doing. It sounds like you're trying to
make a new subfolder named Newsletter under your Newsletter folder by
copying your Catalog folder.
 
I can't really follow what you're doing. It sounds like you're trying to
make a new subfolder named Newsletter under your Newsletter folder by
copying your Catalog folder.
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Okay basically under My Contacts I Have: Newsletter
Catalog

Groups. When I make a new group will call it "Webletter" under my
Contacts.I then Right Click on Catalog and say copy to I choose the
webletter folder and click okay. Outlook then creates a new folder
called Catalog but when I look into Webletter it is empty, the contacts
never copied over. When I try and Rename the second catalog over to
webletter and delete the empty one it deletes both of the webletter
directories. And also If I have certain contacts in Newsletter that I
want copied into Webletter How do you do that.



Chris
 
I'm still confused. Outlook doesn't have anything called "groups."

The procedure you're using copies the Catalog folder to the Webletter
folder, creating a new subfolder named Catalog under Webletter. You should
be able to navigate to the Webletter\Catalog subfolder and see there the
contacts that were in the original Catalog folder. The Webletter folder
would have no contacts in it because it's new.

Renaming the Webletter\Catalog subfolder to Webletter\Webletter shouldn't
change anything but the name of the folder (although if you're using Outlook
2003, it will make it terribly confusing to have folders with the same name
showing up in the Contacts navigation pane).

Is there a purpose to this whole exercise? Have you ever tried using
categories to organize your contacts?

If you want to copy individual contacts, select them, then Ctrl+drag them to
the desired target folder.
 
I'm still confused. Outlook doesn't have anything called "groups."

The procedure you're using copies the Catalog folder to the Webletter
folder, creating a new subfolder named Catalog under Webletter. You
should be able to navigate to the Webletter\Catalog subfolder and see
there the contacts that were in the original Catalog folder. The
Webletter folder would have no contacts in it because it's new.

Renaming the Webletter\Catalog subfolder to Webletter\Webletter
shouldn't change anything but the name of the folder (although if
you're using Outlook 2003, it will make it terribly confusing to have
folders with the same name showing up in the Contacts navigation
pane).

Is there a purpose to this whole exercise? Have you ever tried using
categories to organize your contacts?

If you want to copy individual contacts, select them, then Ctrl+drag
them to the desired target folder.
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The reason for different titles un My contacts is cause when we send out
Newsletter from our company we just use the contacts it the right folder
which is under My Contacts. Sorry for Confusing you But it is hard to
explain. and yes this is on Outlook 2003.

Chris
 
You can do the same thing with categories.

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Author of
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Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
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