Missing contacts

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I discovered that I am missing many of my contacts
today. How can I recover them? Is there a virus that
deletes ones contacts? I wonder if it has anything to do
with my attempting to create a sublist. It seems to have
messed things up. I now have a backup contacts list with
more names than the "contacts" list but both are still a
subset of what I originally had. The new subfile I
created is empty!
 
"I discovered?"
Come on. You must know more than that.
List the steps that created your problem. We can't read minds. No one could
possibly help you with no information.
 
I attempted to create two new fields to sort my contacts
with by going to contacts-view-current view-customize
current view-fields. Then I created two new fields.
Nothing appeared. It didn't work to create subfiles for
me. So, I think I created a distribution list. I now
see a distribution list exists which has many of my
contacts in it that no longer exist in the master
contacts file. Another problem with the existing master
file is that in the detailed view the phone numbers and
addresses are now cut off. I do find them when I open a
particular field.
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"I discovered?"
Come on. You must know more than that.
List the steps that created your problem. We can't read minds. No one could
possibly help you with no information.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
I discovered that I am missing many of my contacts
today. How can I recover them? Is there a virus that
deletes ones contacts? I wonder if it has anything to do
with my attempting to create a sublist. It seems to have
messed things up. I now have a backup contacts list with
more names than the "contacts" list but both are still a
subset of what I originally had. The new subfile I
created is empty!
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PMJI, but custom fields and views are my one of my hobbies. When you created
those new fields, nothing was supposed to appear, except that the fields
show up on the Field Chooser under User-defined Fields in Folder. You can
then add them to the view. Or work with them on the All Fields page of any
open contact item.

I don't know what you were thinking of or what you did in terms of
"subfiles."

If you have a distribution list that contains names and addresses that you
don't have elsewhere, you can save it as a text file, open it in Notepad to
strip out the information before the names and addresses, then import it
back into Outlook as a tab-delimited text file.

What do you mean by "cut off" with respect to the addresses and phone
numbers? That there isn't enough room to show them? If so, maximum the
window and drag the column border to make the columns wider and show fewer
of them at one time.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
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