Removing a category from a group of contacts

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    - Form Design for Contact First Page Is there a training class (not online) that anyone knows of to learn how to do Forms in Outlook 2007. All I want to do is change the first page of the Contacts Form so that the notes are on the bottom, as they were before 2003. I also want all my new Contacts and all my existing Contacts to change to the new format (with Notes on the bottom, not on the side). That narrow area of Notes on the side of the page is driving me absolutely CRAZY! I have checked these newsgroups and have seen a lot of people asking about how to make form changes. The answers are in dribs and drabs, and NOT very detailed. I am not a programmer. However, I can follow directions if they are spelled out in DETAIL. For example, if you say Publish the Form, you have to give the steps of where, when and how to Publish a Form. Like I said, I can follow step by step directions very easily, as long as all the steps are there. All I have to do is see the info in DETAIL once, and I will understand how to do the process. But I want a complete process in one place. Some of the steps online are a little confusing because they have links that send me all over the place, and I usually lose where I started. It is way too confusing. Is there someone or someplace that I can easily learn the steps to change the first page of the Contact Form so that the Notes section is on the bottom of the form, and not on the side? I need to Publish it so that all my new and existing contacts automatically use the new format. Thanks! Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 127074
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    - can you replace your data file can you take your .pst files from one computer if it is running vista and reload office on another computer and take that .pst file to import your data? Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 127073
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    - Contacts appear as message I exported some contacts from Access database but they appear as messages instead of contacts in the contacts folder. Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 127072
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    - Recover contacts from corrupt pst file I'm in a bit of a crisis. After upgrading to Vista x64, I'm attempting to import my old .pst file into Outlook 2007. I'm told that the .pst is corrupt and that I should run scanpst.exe to repair it. I found scanpst.exe and ran it, and I get an error message "An error occurred which caused the scan to be stopped. No changes have been made to the scanned file." This happens for both my regular and backup .pst files. I've scanned the pst files with the demo versions of commercial data recovery products, and the data are there. But I'd rather not pay $250 to recover my address book. This is my only copy of it, please help! Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 127057
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    - how do I change 400 contact company names at one time in Outlook? I'm looking for the easiest way to replace an existing company name in a group of 400 contacts with a new company name without doing each one seperately. I organize my contacts by company name. I have a large customer that recently changed their name. I simply want to change all contacts to the new company name at the same time. How do I accomplish this in Outlook? This would seem fairly easy, but I just can't figure it out. Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 127056
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    - I need to remove an "extra" contact list I have two contact lists showing up under Outlook Address Books. Both are named Contacts. One has only three entries and the other has all of my contacts that I want. How do I get rid of this "extra" contact list? Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 127055
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    - Unresolved Entry I am accessing Microsoft Outlook from the web. I have a few distribution lists set up and when I click on one of them to send a mass email I get an error saying there are "unresolved names" in the list and the remove the name listed as "unresolved entry" to send the email. Any suggestions on the problem and how to fix it? Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 127054
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    - drop down menu on 1st letter for new mail will someone please for the sake of god tell me how to do this. you know when you go to compose a new email in outlook, when you can type the 1st letter of any person you have emailed and it will show their entire email even if you dont have them saved in ur universal contact list? is there any possible way to extract that into a file and then be able to load it back into the same user but a diffrent computer? PLEASE HELP!!! Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 127036
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    - Not receiving an e-mail I have a contact set up with an e-mail address in it. I can e-mail to that address but I can't receive e-mails from that same address - even when they hit reply to the e-mail I sent. Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 127035
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    - How to create a blind email distribution list I want to send emails by group list (distribution lsit) with revealing everyoneâ??s email address. ANy suggestions?? Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 127032
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    - By Company view - Outlook 2007 It would be very handy to have an alpha tag for the view by company in contacts. It's there for view by business cards or address cards. At the moment I have to scroll through the list, or guess as to where in the scroll bar i need to go to... ---------------- 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/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=d3f42991-8092-444e-9216-592a9e6670ce&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.contacts Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 127031
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    - Outlook 2007 Address book Service I'm running Outlook 2007 (part of MS Office) on Vista Ultimate, and cannot get the adderess book to recognise the contacts folder - the tick box is greyed out in the contacts>properties>OAB - I went to the Address Book settings under account settings and checked I have the MAPI OAB in there however it won't let me remove it to reinstate it, or in fact change it at all. I've read through as many of the similar postings as possible but now am stumped... any ideas? Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 127030
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    - How do I delete the files listed under My Contacts in Outlook2007 When looking at Contacts on Outlook 2007, on the left there is a category called My Contacts. Under it are several listings including Contacts, Shared Contacts, etc. I would like to delete some of these or at least be able to set one of them as the default. Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 127028
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    - Usefulness of shared contacts I have a setup where we want to keep a corporate contact list available to all users (but maintained centrally - users only need read access). So we have a specific account that "owns" the global contact list, and have shared that user's contact list. Other users can successfully see and access this shared list in Outlook 2003 by going to Other Contacts, clicking on the "master" user's name, and their contacts are then displayed. From here it's possible to right- click and choose "new message", "new appointment", "new meeting" and "new task" - so far, so good, and exactly what we need. However, suppose our user wants to send an email to TWO of the shared contacts; they can start as above by choosing "new message", but if they now click "Cc..." to add another of the shared contacts, they can't find them. They don't appear in the "Global Address List", nor under "Contacts", nor "All address lists", nor "Public folders". Even if they type in a valid name for one of the contacts directly into the CC box, it won't validate and expand to the email address from the master contact list. The way it is at present, sharing contacts is at best very long winded (involving cutting and pasting of email addresses) and at worst useless. Is this really so, or am I missing some step in the setup of the master list? Thanks, Derek TP Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 127027
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    - Birthday / Anniversary Contacts to Calendar Hi All, I understand that when I place a birthday or anniversary in a contact then Outlook should place that same birthday or anniversary in the calendar. I can't seem to make this work. I understand there is sometimes a problem with imported .pst files. I've created new contacts and it still doesn't work. I have changed some of the categories (initially combined Birthday and Anniversary) which I've subsequently changed back. Does anybody have any bright ideas? Regards, Paul. Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 127025
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    - Outlook contacts missing I had all my contacts I have been synching them with my blackberry for months no problem I love the new outlook 2007 but I opened outlook the other day and my email is all there, my calender is there but my contacts are all gone when I try to sync it says it is going to delete on my handheld like in outlook so I stop the sync where do I go what do I do other than reinstall my office and start over to get my contacts back? Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 127023
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    - Synchronizing Outlook with Blackberry My contacts are organized into folders to help me manage my contact list. While I was able to direct Blackberry to download all of my contacts by directing it to all of the folders individually, the contact list on my Blackberry has the folder names but the contacts are all in one full listing. Is there someway to download the contacts to Blackberry and maintain their folder divisions. Thanks CMH Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 127020
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    - Outlook 2003: Show this folder as an email Address Book" option unavailable Hi! I have my old work laptop which I now use solely for personal use. My registry was corrupt so I deleted it. I've reinstalled Office with the install files on the hard drive. The problem I'm having now, I can't use the Outlook Contacts in outbound emails. I can only use my PST Contacts. I can add new contacts to the Outlook Contacts, but can't see them in the new outbound emails. Right-clicking on the Contacts folder icon and selecting "Properties", selecting the "Oulook Address Book" tab, the checkbox for "Show this folder as an email Address Book" is greyed out. I went into Control Panel, Mail, and deleted the profile and created a new one. Nothing changed. Thanks for your help. Bill Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 127010
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    - 2nd account my account -had no problem importing my csv file (address book from yahoo). my husbands - can't..... his contacts are not showing - it says 46 at the bottom, like the 46 contacts were imported.?. BUT can't see them.?. HELP Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 127009
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    - Copying large number of email addresses off a doc to dist list? I want to copy and paste a large number of email address from a document in word to a new Distribution List in Outlook. Is this possible or do I have to enter each address manually? Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 127008
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    - Transfer contacts containing Japanese text I have a contacts file made in Outlook 2000. The file contains Japanese text. There is no problem to input and see Japanese text in Outlook 2000. When I tried to export and import the contact file via .pst file, The text does not show up correctly. I also tried to export the contacts file in Excel or other format, but no avail. Does someone know how to solve this problem? Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 127006
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    - Contact list How do you add/delete names from the drop down menu that appears when you type a name in the "TO" box? There seems to be no correlation between the names that appear in the drop down box and the contact list. Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 127005
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    - Phone numbers for the country is not saved i.e US and ITALY I try to create a new contact and manually complete the phone numbers and I click on the Business Button to fill out the phone Details. In the COUNTRY /REGION field, I selected United States, click on OK, save the contact but the moment i open the same contact, and went back to the BUSINESS button, and found that the PHONE details for the country has changed back to CANADA. For another country like ITALY, it changed to VATICAN City. Can somebody tell me if there is a workaround or is a bug from MS OFFICE? Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 126998
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    - contents of nk2 file Some names in the nk2 file have 'inverted commas' around them and others don't? I would like all names to appear without the 'inverted commas'. (a) How do I remove them? (b) How do I prevent them appearing by default? Many thanks, John Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 126990
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    - when I send messages to certain contacts, they keep returning I have contacts with the same domain which I always send e-mails to. Somehow now some keep returning, I even have an e-mail of my own with that same domain and now I can not receive it. Some work some donÂ´t. How can I secure that these e-mails do not keep returning? Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 126989
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    - Re: what is File Access Engine (.FAE) DLL or ValuPak? You must recover mapi32.dll in %WINDIR%\SYSTEM32\ to original Microsoft version. If you have another Mail client (The BAT, Thunderbird, etc.) they can replace Microsoft's mipi32.dll to own version. Thats why you have this problem. Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 126987
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    - Outlook - arrange contacts w/in a category in alphabetical order? Is it possible to arrange contacts in alphabetical order within a category, when in categories view? Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 126979
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    - Distribution List- Mail merge I am trying to send out mass emails- with a mail merge in outlook. This is being done for the purpose of a survey. I need to put information the subject line that individually pertains to that email address. The software for survey works to BCC each email address, (Easy Survey), I just dont know how to include any informaiton on the subject line. Is that possible? Thanks. Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 126972
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    - I want to use my Outlook 2007 to Manage my small bus. Need guidanc 1. I'd like to always look at my business separately from my personal contacts. 2. I'd like to be able to create one large distribution list 300+ 3. I'd like to do more too but that is a start. -- andrew Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 126971
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    - Sync Business Contact Manager contacts with Personal Contacts Is there a way to have the contacts in the Business Contact Manager sync with my local contacts. I'd like to keep work related contacts in the BCM but personal ones in my personal. Then have the business contacts copied into my personal contacts PST. Possible? Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 126970
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    - Outlook Address Book Won't Show Contacts I have thoroughly reviewed, and tried, the various suggestions posted here, and elsewhere in the Windows Community, for solving this problem. Nothing has worked so far. On a new machine, using VISTA and Outlook 2007, I used Windows Easy Transfer to copy files from Windows XP & Outlook 2007. The new Outlook Address Book (OAB) does not recognize the contacts information in the .pst file. On the first try at transfer, the mail, tasks, and calendar info copied successfully, and worked fine, but the Contacts info did not display. Based on advice elsewhere on this forum, I concluded that the Contacts file was probably in the wrong format, from being copied over from prior versions of Office. I changed that as instructed, prepared a temporary .pst file, copied that to the new machine, then cust & pasted that data from the temp .pst Contacts display into the default .pst Contacts display. That process brought all of my contacts into Outlook 2007 and in that location, the contact data is all useable. (For example, from any contact card, I can create a new mail message and the email address opens in a new message box.) But, I still cannot open a new message and select an address from the OAB. It is blank. In Mail > File > Data File Management > Address Books Tab, the OAB is displayed. However, it does not list itself when Change is clicked. In Contacts > Properties > OAB tab, the "Show this folder as an OAB" is grayed out. Research here took me to this page: Contacts are not available in the Address Book http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/contactsinaddressbook.htm This page accurately describes the problem, and ends with the advice to "recreate your mail profile," because the OAB service is corrupted. That leads to these instructions: Adding/Recreating a Mail Profile http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/newprofile.htm I created a new mail profile, but the problem remains identical. So I am at a deadend. --vicmike 7/24/08 Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 126969
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    - Using Outlook 2007 how many e-mail distribution lists can I have? I am trying to add more distribution lists. After I save a new distribution list, I can't find it when I scroll up and down the address book. I currently have 23 distribution lists. Also, how many e-mail addresses can I put on one distribution list? Is there a limit to the number of e-mail addresses I can send to in one day? -- Thank you so much, Jennifer Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 126968
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    - what does parameter values are not valid mean I am trying to add contacts in to my address book. I can not save a close. It comes up One or more parameter vales are not valid. How do I fix this problem Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 126952
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    - Adding fields to distribution list in Outlook 03 I want to add fields besides name and e-mail to selections to select members for my distribution list. All I see is e-mail and Name. To help me select I would like to see the category filed as this field has the information that tells me what names to select. According to the contacts you can't sort by category and keep them that way when you are selecting contacts for a distribution list. Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 126950
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    - how can i make today's to-do tasks appear red? Hey all I really like the way the text appears red in tasks or contacts when it is overdue. On the older Outlook, contacts would appear red as soon as they reached a specfic time! now it only shows red at the end of the day or something? I tried changing the "work day hours" in calander options, but it didn't seem to change?! Any help much appreciated. Iain N.Z Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 126948
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    - Outlook 2007 SP1 creating contact(s) automatically I've read numerous posts that say Outlook does not and cannot automatically create a contact. However, it IS happening. Every day, there are a few contacts added to my contacts folder that I did not specifically add. The only common denominator is that I received an e-mail from these folks. It's not even someone I necessarily replied to either. I've looked through every option window available, for e-mail and contacts, and cannot find any type of setting that's causing senders to be automatically added to contacts. Please do not respond with "Outlook does not do this or cannot do this" because it's happening. I have no add-in software. Again, I cannot find a common criteria for which these contacts are automatically created. The only contact info is their server e-mail address. Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 126926
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    - contact's address can't dynamic search in TO box Example: I have two contact colin.liu@keppe.com & clm.la@keppe.com, When I edit new emaile, I type in "c" in TO box, only " colin.liu@keppe.com " is visible, no "clm.la@keppe.com". Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 126922
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    - Synching Outlook 2003 contacts and address book!? Hi, I've edited my Outlook address book (NOT the Windows address book) that seems to be based on contacts. But neither the edits nor the deletions get considered in the Outlookd 2003 Contacts window!? Why not? Do I need to re-do the whole thing for the contacts now!? That took my quite some time ... But why would there then be two different kinds of address books INSIDE Outlook 2003? I'm still hoping for an easy synch solution though ... Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot! Xeronimo Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 126921
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    - Cannot delete certain Outlook contacts The error message is "The messaging interface has returned an unknown error. If the problem persists, restart Outlook." My Outlook files started life in 1998 in Office '97. I've been in and out of domains (I suspect that's the problem). Otherwise, Outlook works fine. I'm using 2007, but I had the same problem with Outlook 2003. Walter Feigenson Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 126917
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    - sort by zip code in outlook 2007 I just unstalled business contact manager because it was causing more problems that solutions and am using Outlook 2007 for my contact database. Is there a way to sort the contacts in Outlook by zip code?? Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 126912
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    - Autofill ( ) parathesis and - dashes in Contact Number Autofill ( ) parathesis and - dashes in Contact Number How do I enable this feature. So I don't have to type in the () and - example (222) 333-3333 Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 126901
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    - How do put the same note onto all contacts within a catagory? I'm using Outlook 2003 & I have several contacts in the same catagory. How can I put a note or journal entry onto all the contacts within the catagory? I do NOT want to copy /paste the note onto each individual contact individually. Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 126899
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    - how do I download a outlook data file to phonebook I am trying to build an address book for a blackberry pearl 8110 in outlook. I have created a contact file but can't seem to get the information into an address book Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 126897
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    - Prevent writing to contacts folder Hello, I want to prevent users in our network to write into their personal contacts (the one belonging to their mailbox within Exchange 2003) since we have a central contact folder. Can this be done, or can we at least hide the personal contacts so users will not be able to add contacts there of maybe setup a form in order to block input? All users are running Outlook 2007. Thanks in advance Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 126891
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    - contacts in Outlook 2007 do not have comments Under the general tab of Contact in Outlook 2003, there is a very useful field at the bottom to post comments. The same general tab don not have the comment field in the Contact of Outlook 2007. I notice the comments attached to the 2003 contacts do shows up in 2007's if detail view option is chosen. How do I input or edit comments in Contact of Outlook 2007? Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 126884
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    - Contact list Outlook is automatically putting address into my contacts list. I know there is a button to turn it off when I used express, but I can't seem to find it in outlook. I do not want anyaddress save to my contact list unless I put it thee. Help me turn it off please. -- rst Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 126883
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    - how do i add a custom address field in my contacts in outlook 07 i am exporting my contacts list to excel so that another staff member can undertake a mail out, and have had some strange characters appear in the resulting excel s/sheet. How do add a new address field so we can have the address info appear on the s/sheet in a custom text field? Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 126882
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    - Address Book doesnt show email address When I click TO or click the address book I get the list of Outlook Contacts. The columns listed are; Name, Display Name, email address. THe Name and Display Name are shown but the email addresses are missing on all but the most recent contacts I have added. Problem is I have some contacts that are listed more than once with different emal address. Using an iTouch to sync and having calendar issues, any relation? Any fix? Thanks! Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 126881
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    - Contacts button I am using Office Outlook 2003. When I click the "Contacts" button on the left side of the Outlook window my contacts list does not display in the left pane but a list of Current View options for the previous window are displayed (message options if the previous window was Mail, calendar options if the previous window was Calendar). If I use the Folders button and then click Contacts folder in the folders view my contacts display as they should. This worked on my old computer but not on my new one. How can I get the Contacts button to display my contacts. Tag: Removing a category from a group of contacts Tag: 126875

I inadvertantly moved a group of contacts into a category I do not want them
in. I have deleted the category from the Master list, but the cateogory is
still attached to all. Problem is that I have the contacts that I moved also
in many other different categories. How do I just eliminate a specific
cateogry from a large group?
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Re: Removing a category from a group of contacts by Diane

Diane
Tue Jul 29 11:30:55 PDT 2008

select all of the items that need to have the category removed - right click
and select the category to remove it.
http://www.outlook-tips.net/archives/2003/20030715.htm

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"Tracy" <Tracy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:263142E0-E6A9-4076-AF06-B7315296B310@microsoft.com...
> I inadvertantly moved a group of contacts into a category I do not want
> them
> in. I have deleted the category from the Master list, but the cateogory
> is
> still attached to all. Problem is that I have the contacts that I moved
> also
> in many other different categories. How do I just eliminate a specific
> cateogry from a large group?
> --
> TSP

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