Thanks for the reply. Sounds messy -- too bad Microsoft doesn't provide an
easy way to maintain and use multiple address books. It **could** be so
simple - a drop-down menu for selecting the "default" address book (if there
is more than one) and an option for "Create a new address book..." The
"mistake" is having the address book listed in the Registry.

The organization's email list came to us from the group's director(?) so we
could send emails to the group. My wife just suggested another option. If she
wants to send an email to the group, she can send it to the director who can
forward it to the group. That way, the group email list will exist in only
one place, the director will keep it up to date (adds and drops) and Norma
won't have outdated email addresses on her computer that are all mixed in
with her personal email addresses....

John

"VanguardLH" wrote:

You could create a *subfolder* in your personal WAB (Windows Address
Book). That would separate your personal contacts and those from your
organization. Then you would have to select from which address book to
list contacts when you composed a new or reply e-mail. In OE, when
composing a new e-mail, click on the To button to show your address
book. Then use the drop-down listbox (right above the contacts list
pane) to select contacts from whatever [sub]folder you want.

You can use the same address book but organize your contacts by using
subfolders under your account. One deficiency is that when you import
into your WAB that it only imports into your account (the top-level node
or folder), so you'll have to do the import and then select all contacts
in your root folder and drag them into a subfolder. Similarly, when you
export from this WAB, all contacts from all folders get extracted into a
single output file (i.e., the folders gets smashed into one folder).

Select the account folder (root node in the tree pane) under which you
want to create a new subfolder. Then use the "File - New folder" menu.
I have moved to Windows Live Mail (WLM) and having this organization of
different contact types in the address book is something that I really
miss since WLM has just one contacts list. It was a poor choice by
Microsoft to throw away the Windows Address Book or, at least, not to
include it besides the embedded Contacts list in WLM.

"John Cutler" wrote ...
In addition to my regular email address book (Outlook Express, XP Pro)
which
contains my personal email addressses, I would like to create a
separate
address book to hold addresses for members of an organization.

I don't want to add 200 or 300 names to my personal address book that
only
get used to send email to members of the organization.

Is it possible to create a separate address book and then select which
address book to use when sending email?

For example, my personal book is named John.wab. The second book might
be
named Green.wab, and on some dropdown menu I would have the options to
select
John or Green -- for addressing emails, updating names, etc.

Can this be done?

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Or maybe a better question would be: how can I maintain **two separate
email
address lists** for Outlook Express 6 in XP Pro?

Is it possible to "partition" a single address book so that it
actually
contains two separate lists?

I don't understand "identities" well enough to risk trying it....!

If I import a .CSV file with the organization's email list, can I
confine it
to the "Green" identity?

Thanks, John