Need to be able to search shared contacts in Outlook 2010
I've researched this issue for days now and I'm hoping someone can help to provide a solution. Experts, I ask in advance, if you're going to assist with this solution, then please ASSIST. Please read the entire question and PLEASE do not post me a link to an article.
One of my clients is an administrative assistant to three executives. The executives want to be able to share their contacts between one another, but go to one central place to be able to search within them. Outlook does NOT make it easy to do this. I've tried the following solutions with no success:
1. Shared the contacts between the execs - Once shared, I attempted to search, but (even when including all subfolders in the search options) was only able to search within 'my contacts'. There is no way that I can find to be able to search 'shared contacts'.
2. Create a public folder called 'Executive Contacts' and restrict access to only the admin asst. and execs. That was successful, but I cannot add non-mail folders to the navigation pane 'Favorites' list, nor can i search the Executive Contacts folder, and have it search all the subfolders.
This has gotten extremely frustrating. There has GOT to be a way to be able to do this. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, guys.
-R
One of my clients is an administrative assistant to three executives. The executives want to be able to share their contacts between one another, but go to one central place to be able to search within them. Outlook does NOT make it easy to do this. I've tried the following solutions with no success:
1. Shared the contacts between the execs - Once shared, I attempted to search, but (even when including all subfolders in the search options) was only able to search within 'my contacts'. There is no way that I can find to be able to search 'shared contacts'.
2. Create a public folder called 'Executive Contacts' and restrict access to only the admin asst. and execs. That was successful, but I cannot add non-mail folders to the navigation pane 'Favorites' list, nor can i search the Executive Contacts folder, and have it search all the subfolders.
This has gotten extremely frustrating. There has GOT to be a way to be able to do this. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, guys.
-R
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