Hi,

I am using Microsoft XP and Outlook 2002. I have hundreds
of contacts in my contacts folder. They are broken up in
to sub-catagories such as vendors, clients, staff, etc.

When I launch a new e-mail and click on the "to" button I
should be able to select any e-mail address that is in my
contacts list but the list shows up empty. If I go
through each e-mail address one at a time and select "add
to personal address book" then they show up in the list.
However shouldn't they be there anyhow. It would be a
huge task to do this one e-mail at a time.

Also I have seveal distribution lists with 25+ e-mails in
them each. When I select "new message to contacts" from
within the distribution list it does not add the e-mail
addresses to the "to" row in the e-mail.

I spend hours and hours creating these lists only to find
that the e-mail addresses are not accessible individually
or as a group.

I use Outlook Express at home and they work fine but they
don't work on my office computer. On another office
computer it works fine too. We are using  microsoft
outlook 2000 sp-3 (9.0.0.6627)  on this computer. We
simply add the contact and it automatically shows up in
the list if you click on "to" in the new e-mail.

I'm assuming I have something set wrong. Can someone
advise me as to how to access these e-mail addresses
without starting to rebuild my contacts all over again?

And lastly... is there a way for Outlook to recognize the
e-mail address you are typing the way Express does. In
other words if I type the first couple letters of the
address it should pop up.

Thanks.