Moving Outlook Express contact folders to Outlook 2003

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Kim - 12 Apr 2004 03:52 GMT

I'm upgrading from Outlook Express to Outlook 2003. In
Outlook Express I had several subfolders of contacts
under Main Identity. I was able to export my Main
Identity contacts into Contacts in Outlook 2003 and one
of my subfolders into a Personal Address book. Can you
have several Personal Address books with different
names? How do I export these other subfolders from
Outlook Express into Outlook?

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 12 Apr 2004 05:01 GMT

You can't. You can only import the Main Contacts Folder.
You should not use a PAB. It was replaced by the Outlook Address Book years
ago.
You can create as many Outlook Contact subfolders as you wish.

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Russ Valentine
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> I'm upgrading from Outlook Express to Outlook 2003. In
> Outlook Express I had several subfolders of contacts
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> names? How do I export these other subfolders from
> Outlook Express into Outlook?

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Barry - 12 Apr 2004 19:49 GMT

How do we create those subfolders? I've tried for
hours. This is very frustrating - it was so simple in
Express.

Thanks Russ for helping.

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 12 Apr 2004 20:00 GMT

Make sure you are working within Outlook, not the Address Book view.
File > New > Folder...> Folder contains: Contact Items

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