"Alan" wrote in message
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We migrated from a third-party mailsystem where users had large, often
nested distribution lists, to Outlook 2003. At the time, we had to
migrate the distribution lists to categories because of Outlook's very
small limit on the number of members of distribution lists.

When users click on View - Current View - By Category in their
Contacts folder, they see a flat view of each category and its
members. That's fine for migrated lists which only contained
individual contacts.

However, where nested distribution lists have been migrated, they
really need to see a top-level category with sub-categories.

For example, if group A had groups X, Y and Z as members, they need to
see category A, with indented categories X, Y and Z under it. The
normal view by category just lists categories A, X, Y and Z one after
the other.

Anyone know how can we do what they need in Outlook please. They use a
shared, functional mailbox, so any solution would need to be
implemented on about 5 PCs.

Outlook can't do what you want with the categories as you've defined them.
Why would you need to anyway? Suppose you have, say, a group of friends, some
of whom are also family members. if you have the category "Family" assigned
to the latter people and "Friends" assigned to the former collection, clearly,
the people in the Family category will also be in the Friends category, so
they're automatically "nested"; that is, if you send a message to the Friends
category, you'll include the people in the Family category who are also
friends.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]