Sharing Contacts and getting the same catagories.

[Duran]

Hello,

I hope somebody out there can help me out. My boss has a PA and he shares his contacts folder with her. The problem is he has put some of his contacts in categories and she doesnt see those. Is there a way of making the PA see exactly what he has in his contacts?

Alternatively, I thought about asking him to put his contacts as a public folder with only himself and her having permissions to look at them, but his own contacts would either have to 'mirror' to the public folder version, or I would have to make the public folder contacts his default, and I have no idea if those two options are even possible, I cant find anything on the web.

We are running office 2003 SP3.

Thanks in advance for any help.
Regards,
D.

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[mintjulep]

I assume that you mean categories that he has made up - not on the list of "standard" categories provided by Outlook?

The list of categories lives in the Registry.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Outlook\Categories]

or similar, dependent upon version.

 

[Duran]

Hi mintjulep,

Thanks for getting back, I dont know whether they are new ones he has made up or not. But how would I use that part of the registy you sent?

Regards,
D.

I plug you in, dim the lights,
Electric Barbarella !

 

[mintjulep]

You would need to export that key from boss's computer and import to assistant's.

 

[Duran]

Oh ok, I'll give it a go, thank you very much.

Regards,
D.

I plug you in, dim the lights,
Electric Barbarella !

 

[Stroppy]

Duran,

Are you sure it's not as simple as the boss having made the contacts private?