Either of your suggestions are good ones. I'll look at outlook 07, I'm not
sure what else there is to it and what it cost to do so.

I could use categories, no reason not too, other than I started the other
way, because I didn't know any better.

Thanks, as usual you are a great resource and help.

jwb

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Not that I know of. That's one of the drawbacks to creating multiple Contact
Folders. Might there be a better way to organize your Contacts, like using
Categories for example?
I don't know how inclined you are to upgrade to Office 2007, but you will
find Outlook's search functions markedly improved there once you do.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"jwb" wrote in message
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I have multiple 'contact' folders. I use the 'look for ______ search in
_____" function all the time to locate contacts.

However, I must continue to 'pull down' the 'search in' window and select
"choose folders... search subfolders" so that outlook searches all the
contact folders I have to find a contact.

This gets old the 20th time per day.

Is there a better way? Is there a way to have that box stay checked by
default?

Thanks,
JWB