>I am looking for suggestions on how to organize contacts in my Outlook Contacts. Right now I have a bunch of folders, like "Customers", "Vendors", "Girl Friends" <g>, etc.
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>I need to break the Customers folder into more manageable. In my Customer folder I have names of all contacts, could be 2,3, or 4 people from one company, and so on.
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>Here is what I would like but so far could not figured how to do it:
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>I want the Customer Folder to list just the company names. Then under each company name I would want list of people/contacts with their email addresses. Then when I need to send an email to a someone I would select the company name and then will see all names of this company and will be able to select a name to email to.
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>I would appreciate any suggestions.

Use the categories button to select the appropriate categories for each contact. Then in the contacts pane, select "By Category" view

There is also a view for "By Company" but it relies on you entering the company name exactly the same everytime you enter a contact...thus "Welding Mid America" and "Welding Mid-America" would not be the same. You can add company names to the master category list and select them at the time the contact is added.