Hello all,

I've used OE since its inception. Now switching to Outlook because everyone keeps telling me about all the better options that will be available to me in Outlook. I still haven't dumped my OE, so I'm just now experimenting with Outlook until I am confident I can configure it the way I need it for efficiency and ease of use, like I have OE configured.

As a small business owner, Microsoft Exchange is out of the question, too expensive for my needs.

My prior setup in OE was four separate email addresses, to which I created four separate "identities" (similarly called profiles in Outlook). In OE, although I had four identities, I was able to maintain, and easily access in any of my four identities "one common address book" which is essential for basic business efficiency.
Now, it looks like in Outlook I cannot even configure it to do that basic function, that is have four separate profiles, and maintain one common address book among each profile that's accessible from each profile.

Is that correct? Am I missing something here? Did the minds of Microsoft create Outlook in a way that doesn't even have the basic functions that Outlook Express has?
If so I can't believe that Outlook will allow you to create different profiles, but not allow a person to have access in each profile to an address book that's common to each profile.

Okay, my frustration must be due to stupidity and simply being new to Outlook. After all, why would Microsoft create a program that does not allow people basic efficiency options?

Please help, is there a way to have multiple profiles setup in Outlook and be able to access and maintain one common address book from any of those profiles within Outlook?

Thank you for any help, very much appreciated.

ibzapper,
11/26/2011
2:16pm, PST

Your mistake is creating four separate email profiles. Select one of the four profiles and Add a New E-mail Account. One profile can contain several email accounts. Each Account will listed individually in the navigation pane.

Hope this helps.