southerndahlin
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I just got the new Microsoft 2008 suite (whooo) the other day and am in the process of learning Entourage 2008. I've spent a few hours trying to figure out how to have my address book behave a certain way, with zero success. Might one of you shed your infinite genius upon me?
Basically, I have 100s of work related contacts, all in different sects of the industry I work in. (It's not as simple as having Work contacts, Family contacts, etc. I have different groups WITHIN the realm of Work.) In Outlook for Windows, it is possible to sort your contacts by category. In Outlook, there is a lovely little menu on the left where you can subcategorize your contacts. (For example: Contractors, Consultants, Legal Assistants, etc.) You can then select from the menu the category that you want displayed and just have THAT specific group show up on the right.
I know that Entourage is not designed to be a Mac version of Outlook, but if I can have it function in a somewhat similar fashion to what I've described above, I would be so much happier than I am at this very moment. The only thing I've been able to figure out is how to make a new "category." While this might be helpful when managing fewer contacts, this is absolutely useless to me as all it looks like is a rainbow threw up all over my names/addresses.
I desperately want to be able to create a new folder, or new category over on the LEFT, be able to select it from there, and have my contacts pop up on the right accordingly.
I can perhaps deal with the fact that this might NOT be possible, as long as there is another user-friendly option that actually makes SENSE.
Can someone help me? I'm feeling rather defeated and mentally deficient at the moment. Thank you in advance!
PS. I am using the Student/Home version, if that makes a difference.
Basically, I have 100s of work related contacts, all in different sects of the industry I work in. (It's not as simple as having Work contacts, Family contacts, etc. I have different groups WITHIN the realm of Work.) In Outlook for Windows, it is possible to sort your contacts by category. In Outlook, there is a lovely little menu on the left where you can subcategorize your contacts. (For example: Contractors, Consultants, Legal Assistants, etc.) You can then select from the menu the category that you want displayed and just have THAT specific group show up on the right.
I know that Entourage is not designed to be a Mac version of Outlook, but if I can have it function in a somewhat similar fashion to what I've described above, I would be so much happier than I am at this very moment. The only thing I've been able to figure out is how to make a new "category." While this might be helpful when managing fewer contacts, this is absolutely useless to me as all it looks like is a rainbow threw up all over my names/addresses.
I desperately want to be able to create a new folder, or new category over on the LEFT, be able to select it from there, and have my contacts pop up on the right accordingly.
I can perhaps deal with the fact that this might NOT be possible, as long as there is another user-friendly option that actually makes SENSE.
Can someone help me? I'm feeling rather defeated and mentally deficient at the moment. Thank you in advance!
PS. I am using the Student/Home version, if that makes a difference.