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  Asked: Dec 8 2005   9:12 AM GMT
  Asked by: drew6522


Outlook - creating Contact Lists under one main List


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I'm using MS Outlook 2000 SP3 (9.0.0.6627).
My company has about 1,000 customers/offices that we support. I'm working on a project and need to keep track of my contacts at each office. I first need to put all of the offices I contact into one large group. Each office is different. Some have one contact. Some have a few. So I need to put each email address under their office then put all of the offices under one main group. Does anyone know how to do this? Is it possible w/Outlook. I know how to create a single group/list. But can't figure out how to create a group/list under another group/list....

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I would think you could make up your group list for each office and then when you make up your main you do so by adding the office groups instead of the individual email entries.
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TedNYC  |   Dec 8 2005  10:51AM GMT

You create each office group individually and add users. Then you create your high-level group and add the office groups to it.

 

dummy811  |   Dec 8 2005  11:30PM GMT

Create a new folder in “file” and use the “sort by” feature in “view” . You can “sort by” anything on a contact card.

 

jcan123  |   Dec 9 2005  12:10AM GMT

if you’re running exchange server as well as OUtlook, then you should be looking at creating some additional addresslist. Create the items as contacts in a separate OU in AD and then define your query in ESM. then afterwards you can select the new addresslists in outlook

 

newbies88  |   Dec 10 2005  10:13PM GMT

Go to the contact list, right click and create a distribution list for individual office. After the create another distribution list, add all the individual office listing into it will do.

 

GunnyT  |   Dec 11 2005  4:01PM GMT

You can create additional Contacts folders under the main folder, Personal Folders. You can also create subfolders under the Contacts folder. Or you can do both.

I have subfolders and sub-subfolders set up in my Contacts folder to group my contacts.

You could set up a folder for each office and distribute your individual contacts appropriately. If you already have them in one big list you can drag-and-drop them to whichever subfolder you want.

HTH

Gunny

 

BadFinger  |   Dec 11 2005  11:58PM GMT

…and don’t forget the Organize feature where you can have received email automatically sent to the appropriate folder.

 

makuakanedude  |   Dec 12 2005  12:28AM GMT

Not quite clear on what it is you are trying to accomplish. Are you saying you need 1,000 different distribution lists, plus one master? If that is the case, create a distribution list for any corp that has more than one contact. Name it xyz corp and include all addresses for that company. Then create a list - call it all clients. Where a company has a single individual - just add that name. If there are multiple contacts, add the company distribution list name. *** when you use the master list, don’t forget to supress the adrreses.

OTOH, if you are looking for a simple way to sort contacts, why not just change your view to by company?

 

TedNYC  |   Dec 12 2005  6:26AM GMT

Drew,
You need to create the sub-groups (one for each office and add users) and then add them to the higher-level group (All Offices). You can’t actually “create” a group within a group, but you can “nest” groups within an existing group.

All groups will show up in your Group view.