Outlook 2003 won't let me add more than 47 contacts, ignores 48th

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I have tried adding contacts to my address book. Once I hit 47 it ignores all
others. I have the latest updates from MS. My brother has the same version,
yet he has hundreds of contacts. We're both running XP Home on Dell P4's.

Anybody out there help me?
 
You don't add contacts to your address book in Outlook, you add them to your
Contacts folder...is that what you're doing?

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Jocelyn Fiorello said:
You don't add contacts to your address book in Outlook, you add them to your
Contacts folder...is that what you're doing?

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Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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I think you're splitting hairs here. When I click on add new entry I choose
"NewContact" not "New Group" and it ignores all after taking the first 47.
So I guess I'm adding new contacts in my contact folder.
 
What screen are you in when you try? Do you have the actual contacts folder
open or do you have the Outlook address book open?

What version of Outlook do you have? If you aren't sure, look on the Help,
About menu. If it says Outlook Express, see if www.imsideoe.com has the
information you need, this forum is for Outlook that comes with Office.

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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)
 
I'm not splitting hairs at all. The Outlook Address Book is simply a
different view of your Contacts folder and it is not the best place to
directly add a new contact. I think Diane might be on the right track with
your version of Outlook, as there is no place in either Outlook's Contacts
folder, Contact form, or Outlook Address Book to click a command called "New
Group". I see "New Distribution List", though.

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Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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As stated in the Header I am using Outlook 2003.

In the interest of clarity: I access the Outlook address book by clicking
on the Book Icon on my desktop. That takes me to the the Address Book, on
that page, I click on the New Entry icon, It gives me two choices "New
Contact" or "New Distribution List". I choose new contact, it takes me to a
form to fill out the information to add to my address book. I click "Save and
Close". It closes the entry. No error messages. The new address does not
appear in the book at that point.

I am using the same version of Outlook 2003 on another PC with no problem.
 
Diane Poremsky said:
What screen are you in when you try? Do you have the actual contacts folder
open or do you have the Outlook address book open?
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I am in the address book.
What version of Outlook do you have? If you aren't sure, look on the Help,
About menu. If it says Outlook Express, see if www.imsideoe.com has the
information you need, this forum is for Outlook that comes with Office.
Click to expand...

The header states Outlook 2003
--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)




contacts said:
I think you're splitting hairs here. When I click on add new entry I
choose
"NewContact" not "New Group" and it ignores all after taking the first 47.
So I guess I'm adding new contacts in my contact folder.
Click to expand...
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I found the icon and the form sequence that you used on Outlook
2002/XP. I added a contact on the Contact form that was called up and
it appeared in my master contact list without any problem.

I wonder whether your problem is that the active Contacts View is
filtered. To find out, View, Define Current View. Make sure that
Filters are off. I'll bet that the filter has criteria that exclude
the contacts that you are adding.
 
Thank You I will check. Although, I never activated any filtering when I
installedthe software.
 
You can also run Advanced Find to see if the contacts are going anywhere
besides your preferred Contacts folder.

I understand you said Outlook 2003 in your earlier post, but you also said
you did not choose "New Group" from a menu. We get an awful lot of confused
people in this newsgroup who don't realize that Outlook and Outlook Express
are two different programs, and they call their versions of Outlook Express
all different things, so we can't take anything for granted. And OE does
have "Groups", whereas Outlook has Distribution Lists. So you can see why we
wanted to clarify with you.

--
Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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At the bottom of the New Entry screen is a selection for Put this entry -
and a drop down with possible locations. What address book is selected in
your screen?

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




contacts said:
As stated in the Header I am using Outlook 2003.

In the interest of clarity: I access the Outlook address book by clicking
on the Book Icon on my desktop. That takes me to the the Address Book, on
that page, I click on the New Entry icon, It gives me two choices "New
Contact" or "New Distribution List". I choose new contact, it takes me to
a
form to fill out the information to add to my address book. I click "Save
and
Close". It closes the entry. No error messages. The new address does not
appear in the book at that point.

I am using the same version of Outlook 2003 on another PC with no problem.

Jocelyn Fiorello said:
I'm not splitting hairs at all. The Outlook Address Book is simply a
different view of your Contacts folder and it is not the best place to
directly add a new contact. I think Diane might be on the right track
with
your version of Outlook, as there is no place in either Outlook's
Contacts
folder, Contact form, or Outlook Address Book to click a command called
"New
Group". I see "New Distribution List", though.

--
Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

*** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered -- please
reply
only to the newsgroup to preserve the message thread. ***


contacts said:
I think you're splitting hairs here. When I click on add new entry I
choose
"NewContact" not "New Group" and it ignores all after taking the first
47.
So I guess I'm adding new contacts in my contact folder.


n Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

You don't add contacts to your address book in Outlook, you add them
to your
Contacts folder...is that what you're doing?

--
Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

*** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered -- please
reply
only to the newsgroup to preserve the message thread. ***


:

I have tried adding contacts to my address book. Once I hit 47 it
ignores all
others. I have the latest updates from MS. My brother has the same
version,
yet he has hundreds of contacts. We're both running XP Home on Dell
P4's.

Anybody out there help me?
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It defaults to Contacts. It won't let me save in anything else (Outlook
Address Book is the only other option)

Diane Poremsky said:
At the bottom of the New Entry screen is a selection for Put this entry -
and a drop down with possible locations. What address book is selected in
your screen?

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




contacts said:
As stated in the Header I am using Outlook 2003.

In the interest of clarity: I access the Outlook address book by clicking
on the Book Icon on my desktop. That takes me to the the Address Book, on
that page, I click on the New Entry icon, It gives me two choices "New
Contact" or "New Distribution List". I choose new contact, it takes me to
a
form to fill out the information to add to my address book. I click "Save
and
Close". It closes the entry. No error messages. The new address does not
appear in the book at that point.

I am using the same version of Outlook 2003 on another PC with no problem.

Jocelyn Fiorello said:
I'm not splitting hairs at all. The Outlook Address Book is simply a
different view of your Contacts folder and it is not the best place to
directly add a new contact. I think Diane might be on the right track
with
your version of Outlook, as there is no place in either Outlook's
Contacts
folder, Contact form, or Outlook Address Book to click a command called
"New
Group". I see "New Distribution List", though.

--
Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

*** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered -- please
reply
only to the newsgroup to preserve the message thread. ***


:

I think you're splitting hairs here. When I click on add new entry I
choose
"NewContact" not "New Group" and it ignores all after taking the first
47.
So I guess I'm adding new contacts in my contact folder.


n Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

You don't add contacts to your address book in Outlook, you add them
to your
Contacts folder...is that what you're doing?

--
Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

*** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered -- please
reply
only to the newsgroup to preserve the message thread. ***


:

I have tried adding contacts to my address book. Once I hit 47 it
ignores all
others. I have the latest updates from MS. My brother has the same
version,
yet he has hundreds of contacts. We're both running XP Home on Dell
P4's.

Anybody out there help me?
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