the only way to make changes in all 3 folders is to edit them yourself (or
copy the edited contact to the other folders). Keeping multiple folders is
generally a bad idea, in part because its too hard to keep the data updated
on all copies of the contact.

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"Nick Cumberbatch" wrote in message
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I am not sure I understand this. Here is my situation

I use both Outlook and Outlook Express. I have two sets of contact
folders in Outlook: one with contacts without email addresses and the
other with contacts with email addresses.

The Email contacts folder I could easily synchronize with Outlook Express
through Plaxo. That works for me.

Now I have selected some contacts from each of these folders to place in
my Mobile phone. These contacts I have copied into a 3rd folder called
Mobile.

I have a Nokia phone. I can then use the Nokia Synch to synchronize the
contents of the Mobile folder in Outlook with the contacts in the phone.

Here is my challenge. The contacts in the Mobile folder in Outlook also
appear either in the No-email or Email contacts folders. So if I make a
change in one of the mobile contacts I would have to remember to copy that
changed contact in its parent folder. My questions is simply...Is there a
way to have this change automatically reflected in the parent folder.

So I am not sure if your suggestion of using categories will be useful.

Any suggestions will be appreciated

Nick C

"Diane Poremsky" wrote in message
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no. use categories and 1 folder instead.

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"Nick Cumberbatch" wrote in message
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I have two different contacts folders. There are some names that appear
in both. If I change a phone number for John James in folder A, is there
a way to have that change automatically reflected with that same name in
folder B.