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Oulook 2000 Lookup Address Problem.

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by ndhiman 1 view

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Hi,
It's a little weird question but I am going to try to ask. I am using Outlook 2000 with Exchange 5.5. Let's say I open an e-mail that came from an internet address..Now in the from box i have the senders address. I want to add this to my contacts but before that I want to see if I already have this person in my personal contacts or my .PAB or in my Public folders contacts. So I right click the name in the from: box and select Look up Contact. At this time it only searches my personal contacts but not my .PAB or my public folder contacts. So I think it's not in any of my contacts and I add it but then I find out that it already exists and now I have duplicate. So What I want is that when I try to look up contact it searches all my contact lists..Does anyone know how to accomplish this ?
Thanks
Nippun

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by ariston

Looking in Office Outlook 2003, the only method for searching the Global Address List would be to double-click the email address or right-clicking the address and going to properties.

Unfortunately, by default, when you use the Look Up Contact option, it will only search the local contacts and not the Global Address list. I have verified that this same solution works in Outlook 2000 as well.

Hope that helps!

Ariston Collander
ariston@coxcomputer.com

by ndhiman

Thanks for replying but the problem is that when I double click on it, it only tells me the Display Name, E-Mail address and e-mail Type..(SMTP).It doesn't tell me if I have this user in any of my Contacts including Public Folder contacts. So you are saying that there is no way to use Look Up contacts and have it search in multiple places ?

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