I've been reading the postings, learning much. I use Outlook 2002. What is
the difference between Address Book and Contacts? Would Address Book be
available to me outside of Outlook? Could it be updated from within
Outlook? (Like the OE WAB can be a stand-alone).

--
Lady Dungeness
Crabby, but Great Legs!

You don't even want to ask Microsoft has so overused and abused the term
"address book" that no one can figure out quite what it is. The answer is,
"it depends."
Here's an overview of all of them. You'll see what I mean:
http://home.indy.rr.com/russval/addressbook.htm

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Lady Dungeness" wrote in message
...
I've been reading the postings, learning much. I use Outlook 2002. What
is
the difference between Address Book and Contacts? Would Address Book be
available to me outside of Outlook? Could it be updated from within
Outlook? (Like the OE WAB can be a stand-alone).

--
Lady Dungeness
Crabby, but Great Legs!

Ugh. I had a bad feeling ... but I had to go there. Ughly.

So what I want is this:

Use Contacts as my main place for names and phones and addresses etc.

Have a separate, stand-alone "Address Book" that is a duplicate of the
Contacts, and that can be automatically updated from within Outlook. I'd
rather not have to do the exportimport routine, if possible.

Question: Can I get what I want?

Lady D


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
...
| You don't even want to ask Microsoft has so overused and abused the
term
| "address book" that no one can figure out quite what it is. The answer is,
| "it depends."
| Here's an overview of all of them. You'll see what I mean:
| http://home.indy.rr.com/russval/addressbook.htm
|
| --
| Russ Valentine
| [MVP-Outlook]
| "Lady Dungeness" wrote in message
| ...
| I've been reading the postings, learning much. I use Outlook 2002.
What
| is
| the difference between Address Book and Contacts? Would Address Book be
| available to me outside of Outlook? Could it be updated from within
| Outlook? (Like the OE WAB can be a stand-alone).
|
| --
| Lady Dungeness
| Crabby, but Great Legs!
|
|
|

Outlook's "Address Book" is a virtual view of the Contacts folder. Any contact you add to your contacts folder that includes an electronic address (email or fax) will automatically populate the Address book since the AB pulls it information from the Contacts folder.

If this is not what you are looking for, please explain in more detail what is lacking.

--�
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Lady Dungeness asked:

| Ugh. I had a bad feeling ... but I had to go there. Ughly.
|
| So what I want is this:
|
| Use Contacts as my main place for names and phones and addresses etc.
|
| Have a separate, stand-alone "Address Book" that is a duplicate of the
| Contacts, and that can be automatically updated from within Outlook.
| I'd rather not have to do the exportimport routine, if possible.
|
| Question: Can I get what I want?
|
| Lady D
|
|
| "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
| ...
|| You don't even want to ask Microsoft has so overused and abused
|| the term "address book" that no one can figure out quite what it is.
|| The answer is, "it depends."
|| Here's an overview of all of them. You'll see what I mean:
|| http://home.indy.rr.com/russval/addressbook.htm
||
|| --
|| Russ Valentine
|| [MVP-Outlook]
|| "Lady Dungeness" wrote in
|| message ...
||| I've been reading the postings, learning much. I use Outlook 2002.
||| What is
||| the difference between Address Book and Contacts? Would Address
||| Book be available to me outside of Outlook? Could it be updated
||| from within Outlook? (Like the OE WAB can be a stand-alone).
|||
||| --
||| Lady Dungeness
||| Crabby, but Great Legs!

I want to keep a second file which is automatically updated,
containing all my contacts. I want the second file to be accessible
to people who don't use Outlook. It could be an Excel file, or some
kind of stand-alone address book; it could be in FileMaker Pro
database; etc. In short, I don't want my contacts to be dependent
upon just one application. And I don't want recovery of the contacts,
in the event of a crash, to also reveal the contents of emails and
such that are also stored in *.pst.

Thank you.



Lady Dungeness
Crabby, but Great Legs!



On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 01:38:53 -0700, "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
wrote:

|Outlook's "Address Book" is a virtual view of the Contacts folder. Any contact you add to your contacts folder that includes an electronic address (email or fax) will automatically populate the Address book since the AB pulls it information from the Contacts folder.
|
|If this is not what you are looking for, please explain in more detail what is lacking.
|
|--?
|Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
|
|Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|reading.
|
|After furious head scratching, Lady Dungeness asked:
|
|| Ugh. I had a bad feeling ... but I had to go there. Ughly.
||
|| So what I want is this:
||
|| Use Contacts as my main place for names and phones and addresses etc.
||
|| Have a separate, stand-alone "Address Book" that is a duplicate of the
|| Contacts, and that can be automatically updated from within Outlook.
|| I'd rather not have to do the exportimport routine, if possible.
||
|| Question: Can I get what I want?
||
|| Lady D
||
||
|| "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
|| ...
||| You don't even want to ask Microsoft has so overused and abused
||| the term "address book" that no one can figure out quite what it is.
||| The answer is, "it depends."
||| Here's an overview of all of them. You'll see what I mean:
||| http://home.indy.rr.com/russval/addressbook.htm
|||
||| --
||| Russ Valentine
||| [MVP-Outlook]
||| "Lady Dungeness" wrote in
||| message ...
|||| I've been reading the postings, learning much. I use Outlook 2002.
|||| What is
|||| the difference between Address Book and Contacts? Would Address
|||| Book be available to me outside of Outlook? Could it be updated
|||| from within Outlook? (Like the OE WAB can be a stand-alone).
||||
|||| --
|||| Lady Dungeness
|||| Crabby, but Great Legs!

Look at the other formats to which Outlook can export (File Import and
Export...) and decide which is the best for you. Then export your Contacts
Folder to that file type.
Do not consider this a reliable backup of your Contacts, however, and do not
try to restore your Contacts from it. To backup up your Contacts, backup
your PST file.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Lady Dungeness" wrote in message
...
I want to keep a second file which is automatically updated,
containing all my contacts. I want the second file to be accessible
to people who don't use Outlook. It could be an Excel file, or some
kind of stand-alone address book; it could be in FileMaker Pro
database; etc. In short, I don't want my contacts to be dependent
upon just one application. And I don't want recovery of the contacts,
in the event of a crash, to also reveal the contents of emails and
such that are also stored in *.pst.

Thank you.



Lady Dungeness
Crabby, but Great Legs!



On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 01:38:53 -0700, "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
wrote:

|Outlook's "Address Book" is a virtual view of the Contacts folder. Any
contact you add to your contacts folder that includes an electronic
address (email or fax) will automatically populate the Address book since
the AB pulls it information from the Contacts folder.
|
|If this is not what you are looking for, please explain in more detail
what is lacking.
|
|--?
|Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
|
|Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|reading.
|
|After furious head scratching, Lady Dungeness asked:
|
|| Ugh. I had a bad feeling ... but I had to go there. Ughly.
||
|| So what I want is this:
||
|| Use Contacts as my main place for names and phones and addresses etc.
||
|| Have a separate, stand-alone "Address Book" that is a duplicate of the
|| Contacts, and that can be automatically updated from within Outlook.
|| I'd rather not have to do the exportimport routine, if possible.
||
|| Question: Can I get what I want?
||
|| Lady D
||
||
|| "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
|| ...
||| You don't even want to ask Microsoft has so overused and abused
||| the term "address book" that no one can figure out quite what it is.
||| The answer is, "it depends."
||| Here's an overview of all of them. You'll see what I mean:
||| http://home.indy.rr.com/russval/addressbook.htm
|||
||| --
||| Russ Valentine
||| [MVP-Outlook]
||| "Lady Dungeness" wrote in
||| message ...
|||| I've been reading the postings, learning much. I use Outlook 2002.
|||| What is
|||| the difference between Address Book and Contacts? Would Address
|||| Book be available to me outside of Outlook? Could it be updated
|||| from within Outlook? (Like the OE WAB can be a stand-alone).
||||
|||| --
|||| Lady Dungeness
|||| Crabby, but Great Legs!

Thank you, Russ. It looks like I can't have what I want; no automatic
duplication of contacts but in another format. Export is no problem,
but importing into another program can be a PITA. I'm thinking to use
FileMaker Pro as the other program. It's easy to prevent duplicates.
BTW, does Outlook 2002 have a way to reveal the DATE on which a
contact was added or last modified? That would save me a lot of
trouble.


Lady Dungeness
Crabby, but Great Legs!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 06:26:27 -0400, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]"
wrote:

|Look at the other formats to which Outlook can export (File Import and
|Export...) and decide which is the best for you. Then export your Contacts
|Folder to that file type.
|Do not consider this a reliable backup of your Contacts, however, and do not
|try to restore your Contacts from it. To backup up your Contacts, backup
|your PST file.
|--
|Russ Valentine
|[MVP-Outlook]
|"Lady Dungeness" wrote in message
.. .
|I want to keep a second file which is automatically updated,
| containing all my contacts. I want the second file to be accessible
| to people who don't use Outlook. It could be an Excel file, or some
| kind of stand-alone address book; it could be in FileMaker Pro
| database; etc. In short, I don't want my contacts to be dependent
| upon just one application. And I don't want recovery of the contacts,
| in the event of a crash, to also reveal the contents of emails and
| such that are also stored in *.pst.
|
| Thank you.
|
|
|
| Lady Dungeness
| Crabby, but Great Legs!
|
|
|
| On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 01:38:53 -0700, "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| wrote:
|
| |Outlook's "Address Book" is a virtual view of the Contacts folder. Any
| contact you add to your contacts folder that includes an electronic
| address (email or fax) will automatically populate the Address book since
| the AB pulls it information from the Contacts folder.
| |
| |If this is not what you are looking for, please explain in more detail
| what is lacking.
| |
| |--?
| |Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
| |
| |Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
| |unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
| |reading.
| |
| |After furious head scratching, Lady Dungeness asked:
| |
| || Ugh. I had a bad feeling ... but I had to go there. Ughly.
| ||
| || So what I want is this:
| ||
| || Use Contacts as my main place for names and phones and addresses etc.
| ||
| || Have a separate, stand-alone "Address Book" that is a duplicate of the
| || Contacts, and that can be automatically updated from within Outlook.
| || I'd rather not have to do the exportimport routine, if possible.
| ||
| || Question: Can I get what I want?
| ||
| || Lady D
| ||
| ||
| || "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
| || ...
| ||| You don't even want to ask Microsoft has so overused and abused
| ||| the term "address book" that no one can figure out quite what it is.
| ||| The answer is, "it depends."
| ||| Here's an overview of all of them. You'll see what I mean:
| ||| http://home.indy.rr.com/russval/addressbook.htm
| |||
| ||| --
| ||| Russ Valentine
| ||| [MVP-Outlook]
| ||| "Lady Dungeness" wrote in
| ||| message ...
| |||| I've been reading the postings, learning much. I use Outlook 2002.
| |||| What is
| |||| the difference between Address Book and Contacts? Would Address
| |||| Book be available to me outside of Outlook? Could it be updated
| |||| from within Outlook? (Like the OE WAB can be a stand-alone).
| ||||
| |||| --
| |||| Lady Dungeness
| |||| Crabby, but Great Legs!
|

Sure. You can add the Modified field to any list view of your Contacts.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Lady Dungeness" wrote in message
...
Thank you, Russ. It looks like I can't have what I want; no automatic
duplication of contacts but in another format. Export is no problem,
but importing into another program can be a PITA. I'm thinking to use
FileMaker Pro as the other program. It's easy to prevent duplicates.
BTW, does Outlook 2002 have a way to reveal the DATE on which a
contact was added or last modified? That would save me a lot of
trouble.


Lady Dungeness
Crabby, but Great Legs!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 06:26:27 -0400, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]"
wrote:

|Look at the other formats to which Outlook can export (File Import and
|Export...) and decide which is the best for you. Then export your
Contacts
|Folder to that file type.
|Do not consider this a reliable backup of your Contacts, however, and do
not
|try to restore your Contacts from it. To backup up your Contacts, backup
|your PST file.
|--
|Russ Valentine
|[MVP-Outlook]
|"Lady Dungeness" wrote in message
.. .
|I want to keep a second file which is automatically updated,
| containing all my contacts. I want the second file to be accessible
| to people who don't use Outlook. It could be an Excel file, or some
| kind of stand-alone address book; it could be in FileMaker Pro
| database; etc. In short, I don't want my contacts to be dependent
| upon just one application. And I don't want recovery of the contacts,
| in the event of a crash, to also reveal the contents of emails and
| such that are also stored in *.pst.
|
| Thank you.
|
|
|
| Lady Dungeness
| Crabby, but Great Legs!
|
|
|
| On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 01:38:53 -0700, "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| wrote:
|
| |Outlook's "Address Book" is a virtual view of the Contacts folder.
Any
| contact you add to your contacts folder that includes an electronic
| address (email or fax) will automatically populate the Address book
since
| the AB pulls it information from the Contacts folder.
| |
| |If this is not what you are looking for, please explain in more detail
| what is lacking.
| |
| |--?
| |Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
| |
| |Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
| |unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
| |reading.
| |
| |After furious head scratching, Lady Dungeness asked:
| |
| || Ugh. I had a bad feeling ... but I had to go there. Ughly.
| ||
| || So what I want is this:
| ||
| || Use Contacts as my main place for names and phones and addresses
etc.
| ||
| || Have a separate, stand-alone "Address Book" that is a duplicate of
the
| || Contacts, and that can be automatically updated from within Outlook.
| || I'd rather not have to do the exportimport routine, if possible.
| ||
| || Question: Can I get what I want?
| ||
| || Lady D
| ||
| ||
| || "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
| || ...
| ||| You don't even want to ask Microsoft has so overused and abused
| ||| the term "address book" that no one can figure out quite what it
is.
| ||| The answer is, "it depends."
| ||| Here's an overview of all of them. You'll see what I mean:
| ||| http://home.indy.rr.com/russval/addressbook.htm
| |||
| ||| --
| ||| Russ Valentine
| ||| [MVP-Outlook]
| ||| "Lady Dungeness" wrote in
| ||| message ...
| |||| I've been reading the postings, learning much. I use Outlook
2002.
| |||| What is
| |||| the difference between Address Book and Contacts? Would Address
| |||| Book be available to me outside of Outlook? Could it be updated
| |||| from within Outlook? (Like the OE WAB can be a stand-alone).
| ||||
| |||| --
| |||| Lady Dungeness
| |||| Crabby, but Great Legs!
|

You can also use code to link your Contacts to other databases:
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=25
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Lady Dungeness" wrote in message
...
Thank you, Russ. It looks like I can't have what I want; no automatic
duplication of contacts but in another format. Export is no problem,
but importing into another program can be a PITA. I'm thinking to use
FileMaker Pro as the other program. It's easy to prevent duplicates.
BTW, does Outlook 2002 have a way to reveal the DATE on which a
contact was added or last modified? That would save me a lot of
trouble.


Lady Dungeness
Crabby, but Great Legs!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 06:26:27 -0400, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]"
wrote:

|Look at the other formats to which Outlook can export (File Import and
|Export...) and decide which is the best for you. Then export your
Contacts
|Folder to that file type.
|Do not consider this a reliable backup of your Contacts, however, and do
not
|try to restore your Contacts from it. To backup up your Contacts, backup
|your PST file.
|--
|Russ Valentine
|[MVP-Outlook]
|"Lady Dungeness" wrote in message
.. .
|I want to keep a second file which is automatically updated,
| containing all my contacts. I want the second file to be accessible
| to people who don't use Outlook. It could be an Excel file, or some
| kind of stand-alone address book; it could be in FileMaker Pro
| database; etc. In short, I don't want my contacts to be dependent
| upon just one application. And I don't want recovery of the contacts,
| in the event of a crash, to also reveal the contents of emails and
| such that are also stored in *.pst.
|
| Thank you.
|
|
|
| Lady Dungeness
| Crabby, but Great Legs!
|
|
|
| On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 01:38:53 -0700, "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| wrote:
|
| |Outlook's "Address Book" is a virtual view of the Contacts folder.
Any
| contact you add to your contacts folder that includes an electronic
| address (email or fax) will automatically populate the Address book
since
| the AB pulls it information from the Contacts folder.
| |
| |If this is not what you are looking for, please explain in more detail
| what is lacking.
| |
| |--?
| |Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
| |
| |Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
| |unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
| |reading.
| |
| |After furious head scratching, Lady Dungeness asked:
| |
| || Ugh. I had a bad feeling ... but I had to go there. Ughly.
| ||
| || So what I want is this:
| ||
| || Use Contacts as my main place for names and phones and addresses
etc.
| ||
| || Have a separate, stand-alone "Address Book" that is a duplicate of
the
| || Contacts, and that can be automatically updated from within Outlook.
| || I'd rather not have to do the exportimport routine, if possible.
| ||
| || Question: Can I get what I want?
| ||
| || Lady D
| ||
| ||
| || "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
| || ...
| ||| You don't even want to ask Microsoft has so overused and abused
| ||| the term "address book" that no one can figure out quite what it
is.
| ||| The answer is, "it depends."
| ||| Here's an overview of all of them. You'll see what I mean:
| ||| http://home.indy.rr.com/russval/addressbook.htm
| |||
| ||| --
| ||| Russ Valentine
| ||| [MVP-Outlook]
| ||| "Lady Dungeness" wrote in
| ||| message ...
| |||| I've been reading the postings, learning much. I use Outlook
2002.
| |||| What is
| |||| the difference between Address Book and Contacts? Would Address
| |||| Book be available to me outside of Outlook? Could it be updated
| |||| from within Outlook? (Like the OE WAB can be a stand-alone).
| ||||
| |||| --
| |||| Lady Dungeness
| |||| Crabby, but Great Legs!
|