I am trying to organize contacts into one overall folder with subfolders for
different locations so I can search alphabetically in the overall folder if
I can't recall the subgroup to which I have the record.

I thought I could do this by entering records in the overall folder then
using copy/paste to get it to a subfolder.

I seem to be able to copy, but when I go to paste, the paste function is
disabled.

What am I missing here?

Clarify what you want to do. Are you trying to create an identical Contact
Record in both the main folder and the subfolder? If not, then why don't you
just create the Contact in the folder where you want to keep it?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Bobbi Z" Bobbi wrote in message
...
I am trying to organize contacts into one overall folder with subfolders
for
different locations so I can search alphabetically in the overall folder
if
I can't recall the subgroup to which I have the record.

I thought I could do this by entering records in the overall folder then
using copy/paste to get it to a subfolder.

I seem to be able to copy, but when I go to paste, the paste function is
disabled.

What am I missing here?

That is exactly what I am trying to do. Whereas it might not make much
sense, it is something I have to do to keep the peace in a family business
where my husband can't always remember the name but he can usually remember
where he worked when met them.

I have figured out a convoluted way. Right now I am entering all new
records in a subfolder "additions", copying the entire folder (additions 1)
and drag/dropping records from one to the big folder and from the other to
the subfolders.

But I still don't know why copy/paste won't work for individual records.

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Clarify what you want to do. Are you trying to create an identical Contact
Record in both the main folder and the subfolder? If not, then why don't you
just create the Contact in the folder where you want to keep it?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Bobbi Z" Bobbi wrote in message
...
I am trying to organize contacts into one overall folder with subfolders
for
different locations so I can search alphabetically in the overall folder
if
I can't recall the subgroup to which I have the record.

I thought I could do this by entering records in the overall folder then
using copy/paste to get it to a subfolder.

I seem to be able to copy, but when I go to paste, the paste function is
disabled.

What am I missing here?

There should be no "Copy/Paste" command. Outlook uses the "Copy to
Folder..." command to do what you want.
You can always drag and drop, too.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Bobbi Z" wrote in message
...
That is exactly what I am trying to do. Whereas it might not make much
sense, it is something I have to do to keep the peace in a family business
where my husband can't always remember the name but he can usually
remember
where he worked when met them.

I have figured out a convoluted way. Right now I am entering all new
records in a subfolder "additions", copying the entire folder (additions
1)
and drag/dropping records from one to the big folder and from the other to
the subfolders.

But I still don't know why copy/paste won't work for individual records.

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Clarify what you want to do. Are you trying to create an identical
Contact
Record in both the main folder and the subfolder? If not, then why don't
you
just create the Contact in the folder where you want to keep it?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Bobbi Z" Bobbi wrote in message
...
I am trying to organize contacts into one overall folder with subfolders
for
different locations so I can search alphabetically in the overall
folder
if
I can't recall the subgroup to which I have the record.

I thought I could do this by entering records in the overall folder
then
using copy/paste to get it to a subfolder.

I seem to be able to copy, but when I go to paste, the paste function
is
disabled.

What am I missing here?