Storing company-centric data rather than person-centric

[Peter L]

Please excuse the following being cross-posted also in the Outlook.General
newsgroup, but I discovered the Outlook.Contacts newsgroup after making my
original posting and I suspect my question has a better chance of being
answered in this group.

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I'm sure there is a simple answer to this, but either I'm being dim or
haven't found it yet.

I am wanting to store custom data in my contacts that relates to their
company rather than the people as individuals. This is for the purpose of
tracking the status for each of the companies represented in our contacts
folder. Of course I could store this "status" information in each of the
contacts representing a company, and do it that way, but that would mean
going around an updating every contact in the same company should the
company status change.

I won't to be able to set or change the status once and then be able to see
that information in whatever contact belonging to a company I open. It would
also be very useful to able to see the current status for all companies
represented in the contacts folder for reporting purposes.

Is any of this possible?

TIA, Peter

 

[Prilosec]

The new Outlook overlay for version 2003 will be out soon called Outlook
Business Contact Manager. It sounds like this is what you are looking for.
Current Outlook is pretty limited in this function.

 

[Peter L]

Thanks for this - it sounds exactly what I'm looking for and it's out at the
beginning of next week.

Here's the details for anyone wanting to do something similar:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/Preview/editions/contactmanager/default.asp

Now I'm off to see if the boss in charge of the money will let me have the
finance for this...

Thanks again,
Peter