Import WAB file into Outlook 2003

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Dennis - 05 Aug 2007 15:02 GMT

I recently reformatted my hard drive and was wise enough to back up my
contacts to a USB hard drive. Now I am having trouble pulling them into
Outlook 2003.

This contact list is a .wab file format and was migrated from an older
computer.

I have Vista Home Premium on my computer so concise paths would be
appreciated. I don't understand the local, local roaming and roaming things
yet.

Thank you in advance

Dennis

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Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook] - 06 Aug 2007 04:38 GMT

I'm not a Vista expert, but the .WAB file was used with Outlook Express, not
Outlook...so you will need to import the contents of the WAB file into the
new Windows Mail client (which replaces Outlook Express). Then you should be
able to export them to Outlook, or import them FROM Outlook. Perhaps someone
who has done this on Vista can tell you if one way is better than another.

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Dennis - 06 Aug 2007 23:22 GMT

Thank you for the reply and guidance Jocelyn.

Unfortunately, your idea didn't work for me. I was able to resolve the issue
by:
1. Importing the contacts from the wab file to the Vista email client
Contacts list
2. Exporting that contact list to a CSV file
3. Importing the CSV file contents into Outlook 2003.

Again, thanks for taking the time to address my concern and offering a
solution.

Dennis

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Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook] - 07 Aug 2007 08:10 GMT

Good to hear you got it working, and thanks for posting the steps to your
solution -- hopefully someone else will benefit also.

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