How to change default 'Contact' to 'Address Book'

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Gandcp - 01 Mar 2007 05:49 GMT

I recently reformatted my computer and after I used my 2003 Outlook Backup to
update my 2003 Outlook "My Contacts", it defaults to 'Contacts', but my email
and address information is in a second folder, "Address Book". How can I
delete the "Contacts" folder or how can I make "Address Book" the default?
When I right-click "Contacts", it's not highlighted as a delete option.
Thanks.

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 01 Mar 2007 10:04 GMT

You can't delete a default folder. You must not have backed up and restored
your data correctly. All you needed to do was open your previous data file
in the new installation and everything would be where it belongs.

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Russ Valentine
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>I recently reformatted my computer and after I used my 2003 Outlook Backup
>to
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> When I right-click "Contacts", it's not highlighted as a delete option.
> Thanks.

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Brian Tillman - 01 Mar 2007 14:55 GMT

> I recently reformatted my computer and after I used my 2003 Outlook
> Backup to update my 2003 Outlook "My Contacts", it defaults to
> 'Contacts', but my email and address information is in a second
> folder, "Address Book". How can I delete the "Contacts" folder or
> how can I make "Address Book" the default? When I right-click
> "Contacts", it's not highlighted as a delete option. Thanks.

Are you saying that in the folder list above the folder "Contacts" is
another folder named "Address Book"? If so, Open "Address Book" and copy
its contents to "Contacts". Delete "Address Book". If this isn't what you
mean, then it would help if you were more precise in your description.

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Gandcp - 02 Mar 2007 06:51 GMT

Thank you, Brian. As simple as the correction was, I had no clue. It worked
great. Thanks again for taking the time to offer an answer.

Gandcp

> > I recently reformatted my computer and after I used my 2003 Outlook
> > Backup to update my 2003 Outlook "My Contacts", it defaults to
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
> its contents to "Contacts". Delete "Address Book". If this isn't what you
> mean, then it would help if you were more precise in your description.

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Brian Tillman - 02 Mar 2007 14:09 GMT

> Thank you, Brian.

You're welcome.

> As simple as the correction was, I had no clue. It worked great.

Would that all things in Outlook were simple.

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