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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Contacts / December 2003Importing List
I exported my contacts into an excel file and successfully imported it back into a fresh install of Outlook but it does not work. Using the address book icon the contacts list is empty and when I create a new msg the list that should be there of contacts is empty, but when using the Folder List the contacts are all there. Anyone help with this? What version of Outlook are you using, and if 98 or 2000, what mail support mode? If you're not sure, look at the second line of Help | About Microsoft Outlook -- it should say "Internet Mail Only" or "Corporate/Workgroup". (Outlook 97, 2002, and 2003 don't have separate modes.)  SignatureJocelyn Fiorello MVP - Outlook *** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered -- please reply only to the newsgroup to preserve the message thread. *** > I exported my contacts into an excel file and successfully > imported it back into a fresh install of Outlook but it does not > work. Using the address book icon the contacts list is empty and > when I create a new msg the list that should be there of contacts is > empty, but when using the Folder List the contacts are all there. > Anyone help with this? Sorry, Outlook 2002. > What version of Outlook are you using, and if 98 or 2000, what mail support > mode? If you're not sure, look at the second line of Help | About Microsoft [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > empty, but when using the Folder List the contacts are all there. > > Anyone help with this? Go to Tools | E-mail accounts, select "View or change existing directories or address books", and click OK. If you don't see the OAB in the Directories and Address Books list, click the Back button, then select "Add a new directory or address book", then "Additional Address Books", and add the OAB. Then keep clicking Back until you get back to the first dialog box, and go back to the Directories and Address Books list as you did earlier. Once the OAB appears in the list, select it and then click Change to make sure the Contacts folder(s) you want to display are listed. If any of them aren't listed, you'll need to enable those Contacts folders as Outlook Address Books by right clicking the folder, selecting Properties, clicking the Outlook Address Book tab, and checking the "Show this folder as an E-mail address book" box. Make sure you restart Outlook after making these changes. SignatureJocelyn Fiorello MVP - Outlook *** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered -- please reply only to the newsgroup to preserve the message thread. *** > Sorry, Outlook 2002. > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >>> empty, but when using the Folder List the contacts are all there. >>> Anyone help with this? Thank you for the help thus far but I have got another problem. When the steps you gave me didn't work I delved a little deeper in my contacts folder and found that the email addresses weren't imported. Only the name, and physical address if any, were imported. I can manually open the excel file and see the emails tho so I may just have to do it by hand. For future reference what format should I export to the next time I need to do this? Thanks for everything! > Go to Tools | E-mail accounts, select "View or change existing directories > or address books", and click OK. If you don't see the OAB in the [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > >>> empty, but when using the Folder List the contacts are all there. > >>> Anyone help with this? Assuming you were using Outlook the whole time (not Outlook Express or another program), you can just re-use your old .PST file in a new installation of Outlook, instead of using import and export. SignatureJocelyn Fiorello MVP - Outlook *** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered -- please reply only to the newsgroup to preserve the message thread. *** > Thank you for the help thus far but I have got another problem. When > the steps you gave me didn't work I delved a little deeper in my [quoted text clipped - 49 lines] >>>>> is empty, but when using the Folder List the contacts are all >>>>> there. Anyone help with this? Thanks a mill! > Assuming you were using Outlook the whole time (not Outlook Express or > another program), you can just re-use your old .PST file in a new [quoted text clipped - 53 lines] > >>>>> is empty, but when using the Folder List the contacts are all > >>>>> there. Anyone help with this? Idiot question now....I did a search for a .pst file in the office folder and came up with nothing. This is all new to me. Where can I find this file? Thanks for all your help! > Thanks a mill! > [quoted text clipped - 55 lines] > > >>>>> is empty, but when using the Folder List the contacts are all > > >>>>> there. Anyone help with this? If you're using Windows 2000 or XP, .PST files may be located in hidden or system folders, so make sure you have those folders visible when you do the search. SignatureJocelyn Fiorello MVP - Outlook *** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered -- please reply only to the newsgroup to preserve the message thread. *** > Idiot question now....I did a search for a .pst file in the office > folder and came up with nothing. This is all new to me. Where can I [quoted text clipped - 72 lines] >>>>>>>> there of contacts is empty, but when using the Folder List the >>>>>>>> contacts are all there. Anyone help with this? |
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