I am using Outlook as part of MS Enterprise 2007.

I use shortcuts extensively with links to various clients. For instance, I will create a shortcut group for a client and then add shortcuts to their Outlook email folder and Windows Explorer folder as well as links to relevant applications such as a specific spreadsheet.

I have found this approach to be very time efficient.

The one thing that is missing is a direct link to a specific contact form ie. the clients contact form without having to search the address books.

I think this may be a similar request to one made in 2010 which was not answered.

https://www.msofficeforums.com/proje...t-outlook.html

If anyone has an idea how to do this, I would appreciate it.

thanks in advance

Not 100% on what you are trying to do, however, in options in outlook 2007/2010 under contacts > Linking > enable " Show Contacts linked to the current item.

Not sure if this helps.

SpiderTech, thanks for the reply.

I looked for Options > Contacts > Linking > Enable. What I have is
Tools > Options > Contact Options > Show Contact Linking on all Forms so, no that is not what I am looking for.

What I am trying to do is create a single link to a specific contact. As if I were creating a button (for instance)

As I have it now, I have several clients each in their own Shortcut group. This is what I do:

Add Shortcuts to the navigation pane
Add New Group
Right click on the group and add new shortcut. This gives me the choice of FOLDER to add as a shortcut. Here I add my clients email folder.

Next, I navigate to that clients folder on Windows Explorer and drag the clients work folder to the Shortcut group. If there is a particular application associated with that client (Excel spreadsheet) I would drag that link to the group.

Now, when I am working with a particular client, I have everything pertaining to them, all in one place. Well, not quite everything. I still have to go to the menu bar, type the client name into he Search Address Books field to get contact information.

If I add a shortcut in the conventional manner, I can only shortcut to the Contact FOLDER not the individual contact.

What I want to do, is have a link directly to that individual client in my shortcuts group. I do not know how to find a path to individual contacts.

If you can help, I would appreciate it.

thanks.

Ok. Loaded Outlook 2007 into a VM and did some testing. Goal was to attempt to get a shortcut link for a single contact and not just a contact group.

Unsuccessful. Single contacts do not show as selectable options in outlook 2007. This is also the same for Outlook 2010.

The only thing i could see working is naming the group the contact name. This is not recommended because if you have thousands of contacts this will decrease the performance of Outlook if you need a shortcut group for each contact.

If anyone else has a solution please post.

Best Reards,

thanks for trying. If only there was a way of knowing the database reference for individual contacts. I'm sure I found it some time ago, don't know how.

Oh well, keep on looking I suppose.

thanks for trying.

If you do find the solution post it for future reference. this will ultimately help some else down the road.