Hey, I warned you I was unschooled!
The way this corporate Outlook is set up if you click Address Book:
1. Address Book opens which, in addition to icons, menus, and listing of
currently entered names of the default address list
(Tools-->Options-->Addressing-->Show this address list first-->List chosen
from drop down), the Address Book has a text-tile on the left labeled "Type
name or select from list" and a drop down control on the right labeled "Show
names from the".
2. The address lists available from the drop down, again for this
installation, are "Outlook Address Book" which has below and indented
"Contacts", "Global Address List", and "All Address Lists" which has below
and indented "All Contacts", "All Groups", "All Users", and "All Public
Folders". I have no idea how many of these are creations of the person who
configured this installation.
3. I mistakenly thought "Contacts" was a default address list created by
Outlook during installation and would be familiar.
4. In the Folder List, All Folders pane of Outlook, my Mailbox tree includes
a Contacts folder. This contains the names I see in the Address Book drop
down labeled "Contacts".
5. In the tree pane I tagged the Contacts folder and chose New folder from
the right-click menu. That created the dummy address list I'm trying to
delete.
6. I then opened the Address Book and the dummy address list was displayed
under the Contacts address list.
7. I then deleted the dummy address list from the tree pane.
8. The dummy address list is still displayed and selectable from the Address
Book drop down and the Tools-->Options...etc noted above.
9. While the original question was not clear, it is this dummy address (not
contact) list I'm trying to purge from the system.
Sorry for the confusing question and my lack of familiarity with the proper
nomenclature.

Best regards, Rick

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