Position of PAB in pop-up list

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I work for a large company that has many address groups
in Outlook. We used to be able to force the Personal
Address Book to appear at the top of this list by
installing the PAB service first when manually creating
the profile. Since upgrading to Outlook 2002 (when we
went to XP), we no longer seem to be able to do this.

Has anyone fussed with this? Is there a hidden setting or
registry tweak perhaps to change the order?

Thanks in advance...

Marc
 
You can change the order in Tools-> Address Book-> Tools-> Options.

Please note that pab-files are no longer necessary since Outlook 2000 and
can be imported in the Contacts folder by using the Import/Export wizard
under File
 
Sorry, that's not what I mean.

We have literally around 200 address groups that pop up
and seperate the Global Address List (at the top) from
the Contacts (at the bottom). We would like them to be
ordered so that Contacts are right on top, the GAL is
right below them and the other lists scroll down into
whereever.

The issue is that most of the time, using Contacts is
fine, but the GAL is sometimes needed. Regardless of
which one is set to appear first, you need to massively
scroll to get to the other.
 
Do you mean the "Show names from the: " field when you press on the "To"
field in a new message? This field is indeed sorted by alphabet and can't be
sorted differently (at least not that I know of) :-S

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What happens if you remove the Exchange Server service from the profile, restart Outlook, then add it back in? That should have the same effect of reording the address lists as in previous versions.
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for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Yes.

If Outlook Address Book could be moved to the top of that
list (Instead of Global Address List) then life would be
perfect.

Well, ok, that's a stretch. But this problem would be
solved.
 
And Sue wins a kewpi doll!

That did it.

Thanks!
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What happens if you remove the Exchange Server service
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from the profile, restart Outlook, then add it back in?
That should have the same effect of reording the address
lists as in previous versions.
 
Sue Mosher's suggestion actually worked, so you can
change the order. =)
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No, you can't control the order they are listed, only which one is displayed
by default.

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richterm said:
Sorry, that's not what I mean.

We have literally around 200 address groups that pop up
and seperate the Global Address List (at the top) from
the Contacts (at the bottom). We would like them to be
ordered so that Contacts are right on top, the GAL is
right below them and the other lists scroll down into
whereever.

The issue is that most of the time, using Contacts is
fine, but the GAL is sometimes needed. Regardless of
which one is set to appear first, you need to massively
scroll to get to the other.
since
Outlook 2000 and setting
or
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Thanks for the feedback that it actually worked :-)

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Roady
www.sparnaaij.net
Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office related News
Also Outlook FAQ, How To's, Downloads and more...

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richterm said:
Sue Mosher's suggestion actually worked, so you can
change the order. =)
-----Original Message-----
No, you can't control the order they are listed, only which one is displayed
by default.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours

http://www.poremsky.com - http://www.cdolive.com

Expert Zone http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone

Search for answers: http://groups.google.com
Most recent posts to the Outlook newsgroups:
http://groups.google.com/groups? as_ugroup=microsoft.public.outlook.*&num=30


richterm said:
Sorry, that's not what I mean.

We have literally around 200 address groups that pop up
and seperate the Global Address List (at the top) from
the Contacts (at the bottom). We would like them to be
ordered so that Contacts are right on top, the GAL is
right below them and the other lists scroll down into
whereever.

The issue is that most of the time, using Contacts is
fine, but the GAL is sometimes needed. Regardless of
which one is set to appear first, you need to massively
scroll to get to the other.

-----Original Message-----
You can change the order in Tools-> Address Book-> Tools-
Options.

Please note that pab-files are no longer necessary since
Outlook 2000 and
can be imported in the Contacts folder by using the
Import/Export wizard
under File

--
Roady
www.sparnaaij.net
Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office related News
Also Outlook FAQ, How To's, Downloads and more...

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I work for a large company that has many address groups
in Outlook. We used to be able to force the Personal
Address Book to appear at the top of this list by
installing the PAB service first when manually creating
the profile. Since upgrading to Outlook 2002 (when we
went to XP), we no longer seem to be able to do this.

Has anyone fussed with this? Is there a hidden setting
or
registry tweak perhaps to change the order?

Thanks in advance...

Marc


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