Thank you, Diane. Actually, these folders are for organizing contacts, not
mail. We often access .PST files from other business locations at home.
Our suggested treatment would be useful for easily identifying a variety of
contact folders from several open .PST files in the same contact folder tree
pane.

As you suggest, we do receive all our mail in one .PST file. However, we do
use a complex folder hierarchy to organize our mail. We find the management
problem is not associated with too many folders, but with too many folders
on the same level. We try to keep our folder choices at any given level
around 5 individual folders and then use subfolder levels if needed for
further organization. This helps us quickly locate archived mail of
importance to any given circumstance.

Thanks,

Richard

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"Diane Poremsky {MVP}" wrote in message
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Personally, you are better off using 1 pst file for all current mail - use
folders within the pst (but not too many, its hard to manage) then archive
old stuff if you use an old ANSI format pst.

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"Blue Max" wrote in message
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Thanks, Brian, for the definitive reply. Wish there were such an option,
it would be so much easier to read and distinguish the folder names with
such an option as illustrated below.


Office Folder - Business
Office Folder - Family
Office Folder - Friends
Office Folder - Church
Office Folder - Professional

versus

Business - Office Folder
Family - Office Folder
Friends - Office Folder
Church - Office Folder
Professional - Office Folder


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"Brian Tillman" wrote in message
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Blue Max wrote:

At this point, we were just hoping that there was an Outlook 2007
option, or registry entry, that would allow the user to instruct
Outlook to display the .PST filename in front of the contact folder
name versus following the name.

There's not.
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]