Picking Folders for Activities Search

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The Activities function seems to take a very long time to search all emails
for a particular contact. Is it possible to identify only which folders you
want to be searched? If so, how do you you this?

Thanks
 
You configure activities groups on the Properties dialog for the contacts folder.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Thanks - that is pretty easy! Another question - Is it possible to include
more than Subject and Folder? For example, can you include the Date?
 
You can add any field by right-clicking the column headings and choosing Field Chooser, then dragging fields from the FIeld Chooser -- but that view will not be persistent. It will work only for the currently displayed contact.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
No.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Is it possible to set the folders by contact. It would appear that you can
only do this globally. Is that correct?
 
Correct. Activities groups are set per contact folder, not per item, but you can create as many as you need.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
This is a little off-subject. Lets say I'm in Outlook. I read an email and
want to right click and add it to my contacts. At that point can I choose
what contact folder I would like to use. It does not appear so - seems like
I can only go to the default Outlook Folder. Is that true? Or can I work
around this somehow.

Thanks
 
Use File | Move to Folder, not Save and Close to save the contact.

Next time, please start a new topic when you change subjects. It helps other people find the answers they're looking for more easily.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
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