I mean folder holding contact items. When viewed from the "Folder View" in
Outlook, there are about a hundred sub-folders to the Contacts folder, each
one containing contacts, except for one which contains distribution lists.

The problem I have with moving them all into the public folder is that since
the distribution lists are stored in a different folder than the contacts
themselves, I believe that moving them will collapse the lists (I tested it
on a small test list and that is what happened).

Ian

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

By "contact list," do you mean folder holding contact items? Or do you mean distribution list?

Ideally, you'd put all that contact data into an Exchange public folder, granting appropriate access to the people who need to use it.

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"Ian" wrote in message ...
Hello,

I have a customer who, in an effort to create mailing lists with thousands
of customers in it has created about a hundred different contact lists. Each
of these lists contains the members of mailing lists. Then, they have
created a contact list that contains all the distribution lists. They are
using Outlook 2003 with an Exchange Server.

What I am trying to achieve is the ability to have other people in the
organization search those contact lists (basically share the contact list),
the problem is that since there are many, I don't know how to share them.

I have tried moving them into one contact list, but that collapses the
mailing lists, which, given the size and number of the lists is unacceptable.
If this can be done without collapsing them, then that would be ok.

Thank you in advance,

Ian