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Outlook-allow details for multiple individuals in family ie. b
Outlook 2003 has categories, I know it is not exactly what you are looking
for but perhaps it is a viable workaround. You could create a category called "Smith" and add all the contacts that are a member of the family "Smith". There is also a place to add someone's B-day. "Sparky" wrote: I must say that I 100% agree that it would be great for MS to add this type of functionality to Outlook. After spending a lot of time this holiday season merging contact information together (spousal relationships) just to generate mailing labels for my holiday cards, I started trying to figure out if something existed to help. Unfortunately, I've found nothing. If anyone knows of anything for Outlook 2003, please pass on the info. ~Sparky "Karl Timmermans" wrote: Having seen similar posts in the past, out of curiousity, what percentage of Outlook users does any one think would be interested in functionality like that and more importantly, how many of those expressing interest would actually pay for something like that (and what price would be considered reasonable)? Off the cuff, my guess is that all the numbers would be very, very small relative to the Outlook population. The "return on investment" would be even smaller for the effort required to develop and support a "modified CRM model" which in reality is all that the "family model" in very simplistic terms - just using different field names for much of it. In essence, a "very" simplified business structure is one company/one location - multiple contacts each with individual info. In this case, the family is the company with multiple members each with different info requirements and reminder triggers and that's using a "very" simple definition of family here to mean only those "immediate family members" living within the same household etc. Karl -- __________________________________________ Karl Timmermans - The Claxton Group ContactGenie - Importer 1.3 / DataPorter 2.0 "Power contact importers for MS Outlook '2000/2003" http://www.contactgenie.com "homeLAN" wrote in message ... There are probably many people who agree with this sentiment and would like to see Outlook more explicitly model family relationships. Count me among them. But on the other hand, there is the practical issue of added complexity and bulk; Outlook still needs to address its core business uses. Perhaps this is a role for a third-party developer to jump into, to create an add-on that does what you're suggesting. I'm actually surprised that no one seems to have done this already. Or have they? If there is such a third-party program, I'd sure be interested in knowing about it. "Jacoby Larson" wrote: Outlook should allow me to enter in details for multiple individuals in one family. For instance, I can enter in my brother as a contact and fill in his details such as a birthday, and fill in all the details of his wife and kids and their birthdays and/or any special things about them. Right now I can only fill in specific information about him. I know I could create a new contact for each individual, but I don't want to make a contact for his 9 month old baby, know what I mean? ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...tlook.contacts |
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