I have thousands of entries in my contacts in Outlook 2003 and am wondering
if there is a way to only show me a list of entries whose value for
"categories" are a certain word. E.g. say I have a list of contacts who are
in a lot of industry fields, is there a way to show a list of ONLY those who
are lawyers (specified as "law" in categories), and not showing other
contacts in the list and can quickly view the total no of entries in this
category? I know there's "group by this field" if I right click a column
head but it is not quite what I want, it drives me nuts when I have to
scroll through the groups to find the right category... my palm desktop can
do such filtering, why can't Outlook do too? It's the major drawback that's
stopping me from switching to a WM5 pda phone...

Thanks,

Julius

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"Julius Mong" wrote in message ...
I have thousands of entries in my contacts in Outlook 2003 and am wondering
if there is a way to only show me a list of entries whose value for
"categories" are a certain word. E.g. say I have a list of contacts who are
in a lot of industry fields, is there a way to show a list of ONLY those who
are lawyers (specified as "law" in categories), and not showing other
contacts in the list and can quickly view the total no of entries in this
category? I know there's "group by this field" if I right click a column
head but it is not quite what I want, it drives me nuts when I have to
scroll through the groups to find the right category... my palm desktop can
do such filtering, why can't Outlook do too? It's the major drawback that's
stopping me from switching to a WM5 pda phone...

Thanks,

Julius