Arranging Contacts

[steviet]

Hi, can anyone tell me if you can change the way contacts are filed in
outlook 2000, without opening each one.

Also - Outlook 2000 with exchange 2000, is there any way to stop people
using their private contacts folder so they have to add contacts to the
shared contacts folder.

Thanks

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Filed where and in what view?

 

[steviet]

Sorry,

if you are in outlook 2000 (used with exchange 2000) and you look i
public folders & shared contacts. They appear in alphabetical order
Now if they have been set up to be filed by first name/last name & yo
need to change them all to say 'company name', is there a way to chang
all of the contacts without opening each one & changing the 'file as
tab. You can set all new ones to be filed in that way but I cannot se
a way to change existing ones.

Also connected - is there a way to force people to add any new contact
to the shared contacts folder instead of the contacts folder in thei
mailbox.

Thank

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Since you left out the part about these Contacts residing on Exchange
Server, I cannot comment. I can tell you that it requires code to changes
all the File As... fields globally on a PST file. Take a look at this MS KB
article, it may help:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q269/1/72.asp

 

[steviet]

Thanks - I'll give that a tr