Cliffl wrote:

So when I see people talking about "Address Books" read - they have
created a subfolder of the main address book, same for address lists
they are simply extra folders they have created. This now makes sense.

That's one interpretation. There is an address book interface in Outlook,
invoked by the Address Book icon on the Standard toolbar, but as I said, it
contains no data in an of itself. It is simply a view of the contacts you
have for which electronic addresses (e-mail and fax) have been defined.
Those contacts can reside in any number of folders created to hold Contact
items. Outlook supplies one such folder automatically and you can create as
many more as you wish. They can be subfolders of your existing Contacts
folder, but there's no requirement that they be, They can be on the same
level as the default Contacts folder or can be subfolders of any other
folder as well, including your Inbox or Calendar. They can even be in
separate PSTs. Outlook doesn't care. As long as you enable the option to
show them as "address books", Outlook will present them in the Address Book
interface via the Outlook Address Book service and use them for
name-to-address resolution.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]