Hi,

I've edited my Outlook address book (NOT the Windows address book) that
seems to be based on contacts. But neither the edits nor the deletions get
considered in the Outlookd 2003 Contacts window!?

Why not? Do I need to re-do the whole thing for the contacts now!? That took
my quite some time ... But why would there then be two different kinds of
address books INSIDE Outlook 2003?

I'm still hoping for an easy synch solution though ...

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks a lot!

Xeronimo

Xeronimo discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

You should NEVER try to change your Contacts via the Address Book interface.
The Address Book is a view of your Contacts and doesn't allow contact
modification. Always modify contacts within your Contacts folder.

Grrrrr ... so all my edits and deletions were for nothing??? Why is this
address book view then enabled in Outlook and why can I change and delete
stuff if it doesn't reflect on the Contacts ....... ?

So now I would have to edit and delete the respective contacts AGAIN in
Contacts?

Jeez, what a waste of time. What was the logic behind this? Why let people
edit stuff there at all then when it has no relation to Contacts?

Thank you for these clarifications. I'm a bit frustrated now ...

Jerome

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

The address book view is just a list of electronic addresses to make it
easier to select recipients for electronic messages. It contains no data and
was never intended as a data entry interface. Data entry is and always has
been done in Contacts Folders, where the data is stored.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Xeronimo" discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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By why does it have the same properties interface as the contacts and why can
you edit and delete stuff!? I'm sorry but that makes no sense and is
confusing ...

So I will have to redo all my editing :(

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Because it retains a link to the Contact record it is displaying. Obviously
you can't edit the information.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Xeronimo" discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Huh? Of course I can edit and delete information in the address book (I'm not
using Exchange, but a local 'contacts' thingie I guess). That's what I have
been doing for 2 hours yesterday ....

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

And you were obviously unsuccessful for the reasons we have documented
countless times.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Xeronimo" discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Yes, I was unsuccessful in regards to the Contacts themselves. But that silly
address book INSIDE Outlook had let me edit and delete contacts! How could I
know that the address book and the contacts page weren't synched!?

That's plain counter-intuitive.

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

...

There is no separate address book in Outlook. When the developers provided a
virtual address list to make recipient selection easier they never dreamt
that so many people would fail to recognize what it was and fail to
recognize that their data is in the Contacts Folder.

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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
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