1) If you mean notes in the large item body control, you will need to open each item and type your new text in it.

2) There is little in the way of best use for the Activities tab in a public contacts folder, since it can show only one folder's activities at a time.
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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
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and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
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wrote in message oups.com...
Hello, I have a few general-purpose outlook questions for the folks on
this group. First of all, I would like to know if there is a way to
access outlook data in a "flat" form. I would like to append notes to
about 3000 contacts that I currently have in a Public Contacts Folder,
and I am not sure how I can actually append the notes to the contact
records, instead of re-creating the contact records. Any clues?

Second, we have had some trouble with the "activities view" on
contacts. Could anyone here explain how it might be configured for
best use? What I am thinking right now is to have each person in the
office set the activities view to check the calendar, task list, et
cetera of their co-workers. Is there a way to configure the activities
view globally for one folder?

Thanks!
-Jake