>I understand that. Thank you. As far as "Contact list". I'm just trying to
> use the nomenclature that I see in the Outlook UI. Forgive me if I use
> terms
> incorrectly, I am among those (there seem to be many)that have a hard time
> with the realm of (address books, contacts, distribution lists) within
> Outlook.
> Now, I have a "list" of people with phone numbers,addresses and email
> addresses. That list can be seen if I navigate to the "contacts" button
> that
> is located in the left pane below "calendar" and "mail". I would like that
> list, or the info contained in that list to be made available by hitting
> the
> "address Book" button in the toolbar. Is that possible without re-typing
> all
> of the information that is contained there?
>
>
>
> "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:
>

>> The term "contact list" has no specific meaning in Outlook. What do you
>> mean
>> by it?
>> You create Contacts in a Contacts Folder in Outlook. You should never try
>> to
>> create Outlook contacts via a third party synch program. If you have
>> questions about your synch program, direct them to whoever supports that
>> program.
>> --
>> Russ Valentine
>> [MVP-Outlook]
>> "Danny" discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:AD0524AF-0B51-4F05-A834-E48F372004B4@microsoft.com...

>>> In the past, I have made a couple of contact lists and tried to make a
>>> couple
>>> of distribution lists. I now want to get rid of all of those and start
>>> fresh.
>>> I have a motorola cell phone and have used "phone tools" to make a new
>>> outlook contact list . Outlook cannot find it I have gone into

>>>>email

>>> accounts>add/remove directories and mostly got rid of unwanted lists.
>>> When
>>> i
>>> use phone tools to try to create a new list, it still navigates to the
>>> old
>>> (deleted?) directories.
>>> If I choose "contacts" in the left pane of the UI I see the list that I
>>> would like to use as my address book but cannot figure out how to tell
>>> OL
>>> to
>>> do this.
>>> Thanks for any help.

>>
>>
>>