Is it possible to create different profiles on same machine

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Dear all,

At the moment my Outlook contact is a jumble of mess full of duplicates that
I continually have to be vigilant to delete. I have three devices that I
synchronize with Outlook: a PDA, two cell phones. The PDA (Ipaq) displays
contact as Surname FirstName as is one of the cell phone but the other phone
displays contact as FirstName Surname. To make thing worse, there were some
overlaps between the three.

What I am hoping to be able to do (if at all possible with Outlook) having
learnt experience the hard way is to set-up 3 different Outlook contact if
possible, one each for the PDA and the two cell phones. As hard disk space is
not an issue, I don't mind keeping three records with some duplicates if at
all possible. One option that is not an option is to have the three records
together in one (in any case, this does not surmount the issue of FirstName
Surname Surname FirstName).

I do not know whether I am making sense of what I wanted to do but hopefully
my descriptions helped. Any advice/help is appreciated.

Thank you,
jes
 
xppuser said:
What I am hoping to be able to do (if at all possible with Outlook)
having learnt experience the hard way is to set-up 3 different
Outlook contact if possible, one each for the PDA and the two cell
phones. As hard disk space is not an issue, I don't mind keeping
three records with some duplicates if at all possible. One option
that is not an option is to have the three records together in one
(in any case, this does not surmount the issue of FirstName Surname
Surname FirstName).
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As long as you're not using Outlook 2000 in Internet Mail Only mode, you
should be able to do this. Open Control Panel 's Mail applet and create all
the profiles you like. Enable the option to ask which profile to use when
Outlook starts. Define a separate PST for each mail profile. If you cradle
a PDA or phone, you should be prompted which profile to use. You can
perform the sync and uncradle the device. Cradle the next one and choose a
different profile. Of course, Outlook cannot be running when yuo do this
because only one profile can be open at any one time. If you start Outlook
first and choose a profile, then you'll be able to cradle only the PDA or
phone matching that profile if you want to keep the contents separate.
 
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