Mr. Mike wrote:

Are you trying to be a pain or what? All I want is to know how one
can set up a common contact list in Outlook while still having a
private contact list. First, can it be done? Second, how does one go
about doing it? We do not have an IT person around to set this up.

First you have to say whether or not you're using Exchange.
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]