The process of adding another user's Contacts folder to your own address book display is somewhat involved. You will need to be able to create -- at least temporarily -- an Outlook profile that opens another user's mailbox as the primary mailbox. Proceed with these steps while logged in under your own Windows account, not the other user's:

1. Create an Outlook profile that connects directly to the other user's mailbox, not your own, and start Outlook with that profile.

2. On the Properties dialog for the other user's Contacts folder, make sure that it's set to display in the Outlook Address Book and give it a display name other than contacts, such as Joe's Contacts.

3. Close Outlook.

4. In Control Panel | Mail, edit the *same profile* (i.e. the one from Step 1) to change the mailbox from the other user's to your own.

5. Still working with the same profile, on the Advanced tab of the Exchange Server service, add the other user's mailbox as a secondary mailbox.

6. Restart Outlook, and you should see the Joe's Contacts in your Outlook Address Book as well as your own Contacts folder.


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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"Joe Pena" wrote in message ...
I have a little problem. Our CEO has a huge contact list of about 4000
contacts. I have granted his assistant the proper permissions so she can add,
modify, etc. Here is the problem: There are times when she needs to email
someone from his contact list, how do I get a shared contact to display as an
outlook address book in her profile? When I right-click the CEO contact list
and go to properties, the tab "outlook address book" is not there. If I go
to the CEO desktop its there, but not from "the assistant desktop", even
though she has FULL rights to his contact list.

Please help

Joe Pena