limited sharing of address book?

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I'm using WIN 2000; Office 2000 (updates to date in both); I use OE (6x) as my usual e-mailer.

I've just installed an alternate Identity for my mother (who's going to be staying with me awhile) in OE. I want her to have a separate address book (and not incidentally keep her out of mine).

However, within OE there appears to be only one setting for sharing the address book with Outlook itself. If I set MY identity to use the Outlook address book, then it sets hers to do the same. Is there some way in Outlook to limit this sharing so that I can fill an address book for her (in OE) with new addresses, and yet still get to my addresses currently stored in (I believe) Outlook's .PST file?

Any help would be appreciated.
 
That's a global setting - it might be per windows account, so you could try
making her an account of her own. (Winxp's fast user switching is really
nice in this situation)

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)





I'm using WIN 2000; Office 2000 (updates to date in both); I use OE (6x) as
my usual e-mailer.

I've just installed an alternate Identity for my mother (who's going to be
staying with me awhile) in OE. I want her to have a separate address book
(and not incidentally keep her out of mine).

However, within OE there appears to be only one setting for sharing the
address book with Outlook itself. If I set MY identity to use the Outlook
address book, then it sets hers to do the same. Is there some way in
Outlook to limit this sharing so that I can fill an address book for her (in
OE) with new addresses, and yet still get to my addresses currently stored
in (I believe) Outlook's .PST file?

Any help would be appreciated.
 
Right - she would need her own windows user account to log on to, but it's a
PITA to change users with windows 2000. :(

It's a current user setting (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\WAB\WAB4)
so her own user account would work.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)





"Windows account"????

You mean the "log on as" for WIN 2000 itself don't ya?
 
Right, got it; figured that was what followed from a "global" setting on this. (I'm more than a little deficient in my jargon sometimes.) Thanks.

Diane Poremsky said:
Right - she would need her own windows user account to log on to, but it's a
PITA to change users with windows 2000. :(

It's a current user setting (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\WAB\WAB4)
so her own user account would work.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)





"Windows account"????

You mean the "log on as" for WIN 2000 itself don't ya?


Diane Poremsky said:
That's a global setting - it might be per windows account, so you could
try
making her an account of her own. (Winxp's fast user switching is really
nice in this situation)

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)





I'm using WIN 2000; Office 2000 (updates to date in both); I use OE (6x)
as
my usual e-mailer.

I've just installed an alternate Identity for my mother (who's going to be
staying with me awhile) in OE. I want her to have a separate address book
(and not incidentally keep her out of mine).

However, within OE there appears to be only one setting for sharing the
address book with Outlook itself. If I set MY identity to use the Outlook
address book, then it sets hers to do the same. Is there some way in
Outlook to limit this sharing so that I can fill an address book for her
(in
OE) with new addresses, and yet still get to my addresses currently stored
in (I believe) Outlook's .PST file?

Any help would be appreciated.
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