Address book. OE it works outlook dosent

Thread view:

Enable EMail Alerts

Start New Thread

Thread rating:

K Fuller - 13 Nov 2003 00:18 GMT

I have XP home and XP office. When I hit my address book
on the start button I can see all my entrys. But when I
start up Outlook I cant (empty book) If I start up
Outlook Express I can see my address book. Why!! ARRGG

iamnotsunshine@hotmail.com

Reply to this Message

Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 13 Nov 2003 01:19 GMT

You are opening the Windows Address Book when you see your Contacts, not the
Outlook Address Book.
Where are your Contacts stored?

Signature

Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

> I have XP home and XP office. When I hit my address book
> on the start button I can see all my entrys. But when I
> start up Outlook I cant (empty book) If I start up
> Outlook Express I can see my address book. Why!! ARRGG
>
> iamnotsunshine@hotmail.com

Reply to this Message

Alison Rieple - 13 Nov 2003 08:59 GMT

I too would like some help on this topic. I think the
problem is that Outlook XP and OE use different address
books / contact files (.PAB and .WAB), and neither appear
to be shareable with each other except through exporting
one to the other.

I have stopped using Outlook 2002 for email because it is
completely hopeless - extremely unstable time-consuming
as I have to copy a very large .pst file between three
different computers, and updates this file on access even
if it has not been altered so I can't tell which is the
most recent version.

But I also need to synchronize with an IPAQ Pocket PC,
which (of course!) does not work with Outlook Express. So
I am using Outlook to synchronise my contacts with the
PocketPC, and OE for email. Is there any way of having a
single file of contacts that both OE and Outlook can use?

>-----Original Message-----
>You are opening the Windows Address Book when you see your Contacts, not the
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
>
>.

Reply to this Message

Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 13 Nov 2003 09:59 GMT

Outlook uses the Contacts Folder, not a PAB. OE uses the WAB. You can force
OE to use your Outlook Contacts Folder instead with reg hack:
http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/oeshare.htm

Signature

Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

> I too would like some help on this topic. I think the
> problem is that Outlook XP and OE use different address
[quoted text clipped - 29 lines]
> >
> >.

Reply to this Message