Great, I have a file called Work Contacts.pst on my computer. When I right
click on that file, there is no option to call it an email address book in
its properties. When I navigate to that file and do a right click, there are
two tabs, a general and summary, neither which offer the option of calling
this an address book. How about an exact, sequence by sequence answer?

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

You had many points, most of them unclear.
You can show any folder you want in the address book view by simply
enabling that folder as an email address book in its properties.

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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Shoe" wrote in message
...
Russ,
I appreciate your assistance, but you are missing the point or I am
missing
the point. What I want is to click on the address book icon and have two
files listed - Contacts and Work Contacts. How do I make this happen.
Just
opening the pst file doesn't make it and if I am supposed to at that point
copy all 1200 contacts, where do I copy them? How do I accomplish what I
stated in my second sentence above?

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

You should never use "import" to transfer Outlook data. Your Outlook data
already exists in an Outlook data file. You simply open that file in
Outlook
and copy what you want from it. If you want to place these Contacts in a
separate folder, then by all means, feel free to do so.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Shoe" wrote in message
...
When I put them on my work laptop, there were no contacts in Outlook so
I
could simply import them in. However, as I indicated in my original
posting,
my home Outlook already has a Contacts file and I do not want to
overwrite
it
- I want two separately identifiable Contacts files. When I did this
on
the
work laptop, I had imported to the check box that said "Import items
into
the
same folder in ... Personal Folders" However, if I do that this time
on
my
home pc, I believe I will just overwrite the Contacts I already have on
the
home pc. I want to be able to flip back and forth in Outlook on my
home
pc
from my home contacts (Contacts) to work contacts (Work Contacts)
somehow.
How do I do this?

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

If you brought them with you, why wouldn't you just use the same
method
in
reverse to take them with you? They are stored on your employers
Exchange
Server, right?
No Outlook data is ever stored in an address book. Contacts are only
stored
in Contact Folders in an Exchange mailbox or local data file.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Shoe" wrote in message
news They are my contacts (employers contacts were kept in CRM system)- I
brought
them with me and I will take them with me.

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Have you asked your employer? Those contacts belong to your
employer.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Shoe" wrote in message
...
I have a home system that I use Outlook on as my mail client. I
have
approx.
30 contacts on this system. I have a work system where I have
approx.
1200
contacts. I am leaving my current employment so I want to move
my
1200
contacts from my work Outlook to my home Outlook (so I still have
access
to
them), but I don't want to add them to my existing Contacts file,
nor
do
I
want the work one to replace my home one. What can I do? On my
work
Outlook, when I click on the address book, I see a global address
list
in
a
drop down box that when "dropped down", show Outlook Address Book
at
the
top,
followed by Contacts (as a subheading under Outlook Address
Book),
followed
by Global Address List, etc., Can I somehow have my work
contacts
show
up
in
a list that I could then select?