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January 7th 06, 11:38 PM
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Properties of contacts folder. Default changes.
Bump....can anyone provide some help here?
"sulmar" wrote: Sue, While I don't have 100+ folders, I do have 8-10. I keep seperate Contact folders for immediate family, extended family, work, volunteer work, hometown, etc. Perhaps my thinking is wrong but this seems logical to me as a way of organizing rather than having 1 contact folder with hundreds of unorganized entries. You are correct in stating that when creating a new Contact folder, the folder properties are inherited from the parent folder. I.e., if the parent folder is set up with "last name, first name", as an email address book, etc., the new folder will be the same. However, it is laborious to 1 by 1 change any that weren't set correctly when created. This seems to be because I imported them from a pst file that had been created from another profile. The Contact folder properties do not seem to be maintained and are set to default properties. As a result, I have several questions, - Can you post an example script that could be used to change the properties on each folder? - Am I approaching this wrong? Should I not be using multiple contact folders? - Why do the defaults seem to be opposite of what would be expected? For example, why would I want to have a contact folder that is not set as an email address book? If not set this way, I can't use the entries when sending mail. Thanks for any clarification you can provide. "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: I learn new things all the time here, too. YMMV, as they say. If she creates a new folder and it automatically appears in the AB (as I suspect it will, as long as the Outlook Address Book service is present), then that's all well and good, right?. But I know of no option to turn such behavior on and off, which is what I thought you were asking. -- Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx "Zach" wrote in message ... According to the users, she never had to do this before, set the properties herself. So forgive me but I am skeptical of your answer to number 2. Nothing personal, but I have had replies before from these newsgroups that were incorrect. Thanks anyway. "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: 1) You could write a script that iterates the folder hierarchy and set the ShowAsOutlookAB property for each contacts folder to True. How she'll manage to navigate through 100 folders in the address book is beyond me, though. I think she'd be better off consolidating the items into a smaller number of folders 2) No. "Zach" wrote in message ... I have a user who creates new folders under the contact folder for different organizations she deals with. She uses Outlook 2002 and these folders sometimes contain several contacts. When she creates a new email, these contacts would not come as options to choose from as an address. I found that the properties of the folder were the issue. I needed to go to the properties dialog window and check the “Show this folder as an e-mail address book.” option and now they do appear. My questions are these: 1. Is there a way to change all the folders at once? I can do each one individually, but she has over 100 and I would prefer to change them globally if I can. 2. Can I set the default of these folders so when she creates a new one, it will automatically be listed as an e-mail book? Thanks in advance. Frank 
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