Edit same contact in different folders

I am not sure I understand this. Here is my situation

I use both Outlook and Outlook Express. I have two sets of contact folders
in Outlook: one with contacts without email addresses and the other with
contacts with email addresses.

The Email contacts folder I could easily synchronize with Outlook Express
through Plaxo. That works for me.

Now I have selected some contacts from each of these folders to place in my
Mobile phone. These contacts I have copied into a 3rd folder called Mobile.

I have a Nokia phone. I can then use the Nokia Synch to synchronize the
contents of the Mobile folder in Outlook with the contacts in the phone.

Here is my challenge. The contacts in the Mobile folder in Outlook also
appear either in the No-email or Email contacts folders. So if I make a
change in one of the mobile contacts I would have to remember to copy that
changed contact in its parent folder. My questions is simply...Is there a
way to have this change automatically reflected in the parent folder.

So I am not sure if your suggestion of using categories will be useful.

Any suggestions will be appreciated

Nick C

"Diane Poremsky" <outlookmvp.RemoveThis@msn.com> wrote in message
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> no. use categories and 1 folder instead.
>
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> "Nick Cumberbatch" <nickcwpg.RemoveThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> I have two different contacts folders. There are some names that appear
>> in both. If I change a phone number for John James in folder A, is there
>> a way to have that change automatically reflected with that same name in
>> folder B.
>>

the only way to make changes in all 3 folders is to edit them yourself (or
copy the edited contact to the other folders). Keeping multiple folders is
generally a bad idea, in part because its too hard to keep the data updated
on all copies of the contact.

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"Nick Cumberbatch" <nickcwpg DeleteThis @hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I am not sure I understand this. Here is my situation
>
> I use both Outlook and Outlook Express. I have two sets of contact
> folders in Outlook: one with contacts without email addresses and the
> other with contacts with email addresses.
>
> The Email contacts folder I could easily synchronize with Outlook Express
> through Plaxo. That works for me.
>
> Now I have selected some contacts from each of these folders to place in
> my Mobile phone. These contacts I have copied into a 3rd folder called
> Mobile.
>
> I have a Nokia phone. I can then use the Nokia Synch to synchronize the
> contents of the Mobile folder in Outlook with the contacts in the phone.
>
> Here is my challenge. The contacts in the Mobile folder in Outlook also
> appear either in the No-email or Email contacts folders. So if I make a
> change in one of the mobile contacts I would have to remember to copy that
> changed contact in its parent folder. My questions is simply...Is there a
> way to have this change automatically reflected in the parent folder.
>
> So I am not sure if your suggestion of using categories will be useful.
>
> Any suggestions will be appreciated
>
> Nick C
>
> "Diane Poremsky" <outlookmvp DeleteThis @msn.com> wrote in message
> news:FDBB4BC4-3B10-477A-80B6-8CA2DE1949E5@microsoft.com...
>> no. use categories and 1 folder instead.
>>
>> --
>> Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
>> Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
>> Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/
>> Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/
>>
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>>
>> "Nick Cumberbatch" <nickcwpg DeleteThis @hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:OUoq#IPSIHA.1164@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>> I have two different contacts folders. There are some names that appear
>>> in both. If I change a phone number for John James in folder A, is there
>>> a way to have that change automatically reflected with that same name in
>>> folder B.
>>>
>
>

OK. If I don't keep multiple folders could you suggest an alternative given
my situation

"Diane Poremsky" <outlookmvp RemoveThis @msn.com> wrote in message
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> the only way to make changes in all 3 folders is to edit them yourself (or
> copy the edited contact to the other folders). Keeping multiple folders is
> generally a bad idea, in part because its too hard to keep the data
> updated on all copies of the contact.
>
> --
> Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
> Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
> Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/
> Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/
>
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>
> "Nick Cumberbatch" <nickcwpg RemoveThis @hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:#l$tyRoSIHA.4880@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> I am not sure I understand this. Here is my situation
>>
>> I use both Outlook and Outlook Express. I have two sets of contact
>> folders in Outlook: one with contacts without email addresses and the
>> other with contacts with email addresses.
>>
>> The Email contacts folder I could easily synchronize with Outlook Express
>> through Plaxo. That works for me.
>>
>> Now I have selected some contacts from each of these folders to place in
>> my Mobile phone. These contacts I have copied into a 3rd folder called
>> Mobile.
>>
>> I have a Nokia phone. I can then use the Nokia Synch to synchronize the
>> contents of the Mobile folder in Outlook with the contacts in the phone.
>>
>> Here is my challenge. The contacts in the Mobile folder in Outlook also
>> appear either in the No-email or Email contacts folders. So if I make a
>> change in one of the mobile contacts I would have to remember to copy
>> that changed contact in its parent folder. My questions is simply...Is
>> there a way to have this change automatically reflected in the parent
>> folder.
>>
>> So I am not sure if your suggestion of using categories will be useful.
>>
>> Any suggestions will be appreciated
>>
>> Nick C
>>
>> "Diane Poremsky" <outlookmvp RemoveThis @msn.com> wrote in message
>> news:FDBB4BC4-3B10-477A-80B6-8CA2DE1949E5@microsoft.com...
>>> no. use categories and 1 folder instead.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
>>> Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
>>> Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/
>>> Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/
>>>
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>>>
>>> "Nick Cumberbatch" <nickcwpg RemoveThis @hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:OUoq#IPSIHA.1164@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>>> I have two different contacts folders. There are some names that
>>>> appear in both. If I change a phone number for John James in folder A,
>>>> is there a way to have that change automatically reflected with that
>>>> same name in folder B.
>>>>
>>
>>

Use categories to mark your contacts for quick find and mailing. Suggested here often but seldom followed. Try it - you will be amazed at the simplicity. That is, if Nokia sync uses categories in Contacts for sync.

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After furious head scratching, Nick C asked:

| OK. If I don't keep multiple folders could you suggest an alternative
| given my situation
|
| "Diane Poremsky" <outlookmvp.DeleteThis@msn.com> wrote in message
| news:56BBE68E-E18C-4CD2-BD0B-1EDB4C0E4E77@microsoft.com...
|| the only way to make changes in all 3 folders is to edit them
|| yourself (or copy the edited contact to the other folders). Keeping
|| multiple folders is generally a bad idea, in part because its too
|| hard to keep the data updated on all copies of the contact.
||
|| --
|| Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
|| Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
|| Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/
|| Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/
||
|| Outlook Tips by email:
|| dailytips-subscribe-request.DeleteThis@lists.outlooktips.net
||
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||
|| "Nick Cumberbatch" <nickcwpg.DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
|| news:#l$tyRoSIHA.4880@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
||| I am not sure I understand this. Here is my situation
|||
||| I use both Outlook and Outlook Express. I have two sets of contact
||| folders in Outlook: one with contacts without email addresses and
||| the other with contacts with email addresses.
|||
||| The Email contacts folder I could easily synchronize with Outlook
||| Express through Plaxo. That works for me.
|||
||| Now I have selected some contacts from each of these folders to
||| place in my Mobile phone. These contacts I have copied into a 3rd
||| folder called Mobile.
|||
||| I have a Nokia phone. I can then use the Nokia Synch to
||| synchronize the contents of the Mobile folder in Outlook with the
||| contacts in the phone.
|||
||| Here is my challenge. The contacts in the Mobile folder in Outlook
||| also appear either in the No-email or Email contacts folders. So
||| if I make a change in one of the mobile contacts I would have to
||| remember to copy that changed contact in its parent folder. My
||| questions is simply...Is there a way to have this change
||| automatically reflected in the parent folder.
|||
||| So I am not sure if your suggestion of using categories will be
||| useful.
|||
||| Any suggestions will be appreciated
|||
||| Nick C
|||
||| "Diane Poremsky" <outlookmvp.DeleteThis@msn.com> wrote in message
||| news:FDBB4BC4-3B10-477A-80B6-8CA2DE1949E5@microsoft.com...
|||| no. use categories and 1 folder instead.
||||
|||| --
|||| Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
|||| Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
|||| Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/
|||| Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/
||||
|||| Outlook Tips by email:
|||| dailytips-subscribe-request.DeleteThis@lists.outlooktips.net
||||
|||| Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
|||| Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com
|||| Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter:
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||||
|||| "Nick Cumberbatch" <nickcwpg.DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
|||| news:OUoq#IPSIHA.1164@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
||||| I have two different contacts folders. There are some names that
||||| appear in both. If I change a phone number for John James in
||||| folder A, is there a way to have that change automatically
||||| reflected with that same name in folder B.