Sure glad Friday is done

I had a doozie of a trouble call this afternoon/evening. The man (in his office) had moved from Outlook Express to Outlook. Not because he wanted or needed to, but because he had to, so he wanted to be able to work with his contacts in Outlook the same way he worked with them in OE. The short answer is, "You can't". However, I had to find a way to do this.

What I had to do is put all of his contacts into his "Contacts" folder. He had already catagorized them using the OL Catagories feature. So I created separate contact lists that matched each of the catagories he created. Yes, this will be a bit cumbersome on the management end, but he is ok with that. This allowes him to click on the "To" button when creating a new message and then click on different address books as a form of filter. I was just about done and then . . .

I notices he had multiple "contacts" books in the drop down list so I removed them from the list and added the one that was his . . . bam . . . now none of his contacts showed up from the main list only the sub books. They were still in the OL Contact List, just didn't show up when creating a new message. Well, I had a heck of a time trying to figure this one out. What I had to do is go into the Contacts Address Book Properties and put a check mark in a box telling it to appear as an address list.

All this took entirely too long and I missed a kayaking appointment.


And he said to them, "The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath." --Mark 2:27