> 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
>
> "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]"
gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:D1EA8A5F-8DD3-449C-8676-DF3433C01C25@microsoft.com...>>> I'm unschooled in Outlook's (2003) inner workings. A colleague asked
>>> how to add a new contact list because his was becoming unmanageable. I
>>> figured out how to add a new list and made a dummy contact list with no
>>> entries. Now that he is off and running, I want to get rid of the dummy
>>> contact list from my address book. I deleted the dummy from the "All
>>> folders" pane of Outlook but it still shows up in the Address Book "Show
>>> Names from the:" dropdown list. I assume this dummy has been written
>>> into the Registry or an Outlook configuration file. How does one delete
>>> an unwanted contact list? Thanks to anyone who can steer me to the
>>> obvious. Rick
>>>
