Go to Tools | Email Accounts, choose View or change existing directories or
address book. Is the Outlook Address Book present? If it isn't listed, add
it and close and restart Outlook. If it is listed, then remove it and close
then restart Outlook and repeat these steps to add it.

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>I was showing two contacts lists in my address book, one empty and
> one with my contacts in it. The default was empty so every time I "checked
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> new
> address book, so I can use my contacts in a n email message? Thanks.
dprawel - 29 Jan 2008 21:51 GMT
Thank you. I had added a Personal Address Book, not an Outlook Address Book.
now that I deleted the PAB and made an OAB, it works. What's the difference?
> Go to Tools | Email Accounts, choose View or change existing directories or
> address book. Is the Outlook Address Book present? If it isn't listed, add
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> > new
> > address book, so I can use my contacts in a n email message? Thanks.
Diane Poremsky - 31 Jan 2008 00:33 GMT
pab is an old address book format that is no longer supported.

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> Thank you. I had added a Personal Address Book, not an Outlook Address
> Book.
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>> > new
>> > address book, so I can use my contacts in a n email message? Thanks.