That's an extremely important detail. When you delete items from a public folder, you will be able to recover them if deleted item retention is turned on. These KB articles should bring you up to speed:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/180117/
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/287544/
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/228934/

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"Angyl" wrote in message ...
Forgot to mention, what you may be looking for, it is a public folder, under
the Public Folders.

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Selected in what Outlook folder? Is Exchange your mail server?

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Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
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and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx


"Angyl" wrote in message ...
I've created a new form in Outlook 2003 for our company to use. It is saved
and published to our shared, networked drive, but I noticed something
troubling the other day.

If we press the DELETE key while a contact is selected, it just vanishes.
No warning, no recycle bin to get it back...it's just GONE. We were
considering using this form to store all of our client information but if it
is that easy for a 'butterfinger' to permanently remove all that data on a
client I don't think so...

Are we missing something, or is there a way, or programming, or something
that could keep it from being so easy to lose data forever?