Private does not equal password protected. All it does is make the item not
visible to people to whom you have not granted the right to view your
private items.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, David Mudra asked:

| In Outlook 2007 contacts there is a button entitled "private" that
| doesn't actually do anything. How do I tag certain contacts as
| private so that someone would need a password to open that specific
| contact?