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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Contacts / January 2008Contacts? Address book?
I would like to use my Address Book off line. However there are no entries in it. Can I import data from my Contacts file into the Address Book? What "address book" are you referring to? Outlook's address book should be exposing your Outlook Contacts folder as an address list. If it isn't, tell us what you are seeing and in what version of Outlook.  SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx >I would like to use my Address Book off line. However there are no entries > in it. Can I import data from my Contacts file into the Address Book? When I go up to the tool bar there is an icon that looks like an open book. When I click on it a page opens with the title "Address Book". If I go to the drop down menu on the right side "Show names from the:" I have two choices - Outlook Address Book or Contacts. When I open the Address Book there are no entries. If I open the Contacts there is all my data for email, phone #s, etc. Vern > What "address book" are you referring to? Outlook's address book should be > exposing your Outlook Contacts folder as an address list. If it isn't, tell > us what you are seeing and in what version of Outlook. > > >I would like to use my Address Book off line. However there are no entries > > in it. Can I import data from my Contacts file into the Address Book? That's exactly the way it's supposed to work. The Outlook Address Book contains no individual entries. It contains one or more lists built from your contacts folders. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > When I go up to the tool bar there is an icon that looks like an open > book. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > email, > phone #s, etc. Thanks. > That's exactly the way it's supposed to work. The Outlook Address Book > contains no individual entries. It contains one or more lists built from [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > email, > > phone #s, etc. Then why have a choice? I have always wondered the same thing. What is the difference between the Outlook Address Book or Contacts? Those are my 2 questions. Thank you Wayne > That's exactly the way it's supposed to work. The Outlook Address Book > contains no individual entries. It contains one or more lists built from [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > email, > > phone #s, etc. There is no choice. Outlook Address Book contains only address lists built from your contacts folders, not individual entries. If you had 10 contacts folders that you wanted to see in the Outlook Address Book, it would have 10 different lists underneath it. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > Then why have a choice? I have always wondered the same thing. What is > the [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] >> > email, >> > phone #s, etc. Hi Sue, How do I build address lists for the Outlook Address Book? I have lots of contacts in my Contacts Folder and I'd like to categorize them into 2 or 3 major address books that I can choose from rather than have to search through one large list to find someone. How do I create multiple address books? > There is no choice. Outlook Address Book contains only address lists built > from your contacts folders, not individual entries. If you had 10 contacts [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > >> > email, > >> > phone #s, etc. Each contacts folder will appear as a separate list in the address book if you check the Outlook Address Book box on the folder's Properties dialog. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > Hi Sue, > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > through > one large list to find someone. How do I create multiple address books? > Each contacts folder will appear as a separate list in the address book if > you check the Outlook Address Book box on the folder's Properties dialog. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > through > > one large list to find someone. How do I create multiple address books? Sue, When I created contacts, I did not make separate contact folders but a series of sub-folders under the contacts folder. Might this be why I cannot make your answer work? I have checked the Outlook Address Book box but the Address Book shows no entries. > Each contacts folder will appear as a separate list in the address book if > you check the Outlook Address Book box on the folder's Properties dialog. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > through > > one large list to find someone. How do I create multiple address books? Are each of the subfolders marked as an address book? Right click on each, choose Properties and go to the Outlook Address Book tab > Sue, > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > the > Address Book shows no entries. Hi Sue, When I try and check the contacts properties/outlook address book tab/ "show this folder as an email address book", the tick box is disabled I have 1 contacts folder and 4 sub contact folders and same problem with all > Each contacts folder will appear as a separate list in the address book if > you check the Outlook Address Book box on the folder's Properties dialog. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > through > > one large list to find someone. How do I create multiple address books? Provide the necessary information. Just simple things like your Outlook version and how you added the Outlook Address Book Service to your profile would be a nice start. SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > Hi Sue, > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] >> > one large list to find someone. How do I create multiple address >> > books? I upgraded from xp using office 2003 to a new computer with vista and office 2007 I used a Belkin transfer cable to do all the dirty work for me > Provide the necessary information. Just simple things like your Outlook > version and how you added the Outlook Address Book Service to your profile [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > >> > one large list to find someone. How do I create multiple address > >> > books? ...and when you connected the cable, what process did you use to move the data along it? Be specific or no-one can work out what has caused your problem, thus how to solve it wil also remain a mystery. Here are some tips about how to post questions: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=555375 Regards Judy Gleeson MVP Outlook Trainer and Consultant There are various articles about using Outlook here: www.judygleeson.com/articles.aspx Canberra, Australia "What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?" George Eliot >I upgraded from xp using office 2003 to a new computer with vista and >office [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] >> >> > one large list to find someone. How do I create multiple address >> >> > books? Known issue. You never use Windows Easy transfer with Outlook. It creates a corrupt profile to which the Outlook Address Book Service cannot be added or repaired. Create a new profile from scratch. Migrate your data correctly this time by opening your Outlook Data File in the new profile. Instructions are posted here daily. SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] >I upgraded from xp using office 2003 to a new computer with vista and >office [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] >> >> > one large list to find someone. How do I create multiple address >> >> > books? I have a similar problem, however when I transfered my personal contact files to my new computer the files did not load into the e-mail address tool. How can you transfer the personal contacts to this tool without re-entering each contact seperately? > There is no choice. Outlook Address Book contains only address lists built > from your contacts folders, not individual entries. If you had 10 contacts [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > >> > email, > >> > phone #s, etc. What files? What procedure did you use to perform the "transfer"? SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx >I have a similar problem, however when I transfered my personal contact >files [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > each > contact seperately? I have Office 2000 and I transferred my contact files and e-mail from my old PC that used Windows 98 and then tranferred the files onto my laptop that uses Xp home ed. as it's operating sytem. I used the XP connection/file transfer utlitity to perform this. The odd thing is that when I try to edit the old contacts a script line 41 error message comes up ,which can be cleared. Also at the header of the contact profile after the name there isw a hyphen and then "SBE" follows. What's up ? I have Office 2000 on the laptop. > What files? What procedure did you use to perform the "transfer"? > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > each > > contact seperately? i have a similar problem. when i go into my 'address book' my contacts in there are not the same as contacts in my email main window on the bottom left. Also, when i open a 'new email' window and tap in a letter for the email address i want, it brings up a few possibilities as usual. However, when i try and find those addresses, they are not listed in my address book!?!? > What files? What procedure did you use to perform the "transfer"? > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > each > > contact seperately? >i have a similar problem. when i go into my 'address book' my contacts in > there are not the same as contacts in my email main window on the bottom > left Are you using Outlook or Outlook Express? See Help, About if unsure. Outlook Express displays the address book on the lower left. Outlook does not. This list includes MSN Messenger contacts and addresses in the Windows Address Book. > Also, when I open a 'new email' window and tap in a letter for the email > address i want, it brings up a few possibilities as usual. However, when > i > try and find those addresses, they are not listed in my address book!?!? That is the autocomplete cache. It holds addresses of people you send email to. You can select names and press delete to remove them. SignatureDiane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide) Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/ Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter: EMO-NEWSLETTER-SUBSCRIBE-REQUEST@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM i know it performs an autocomplete function. i didn't mean that. i meant that one of my contact's addresses appears with autocomplete yet i cannot seem to locate it in my contacts list. Also, how do i sync contacts with my addres book. it's the weirdest yet simplest-i'd have thought- task!! > >i have a similar problem. when i go into my 'address book' my contacts in > > there are not the same as contacts in my email main window on the bottom [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > That is the autocomplete cache. It holds addresses of people you send email > to. You can select names and press delete to remove them. there is nothing to sync - the outlook address book is a virtual view of the contacts folder. make sure the folder is enabled as an address book- right click on it and choose properties, then outlook address book. autocomplete has nothing to do with the address book- they are two separate functions and features. Just because an address is in one, doesn't mean it will be in the other. SignatureDiane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide) Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/ Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter: EMO-NEWSLETTER-SUBSCRIBE-REQUEST@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM >i know it performs an autocomplete function. > i didn't mean that. i meant that one of my contact's addresses appears [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] >> to. You can select names and press delete to remove them. i know this but i can't locate some addresses which appear when using auto correct > >i have a similar problem. when i go into my 'address book' my contacts in > > there are not the same as contacts in my email main window on the bottom [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > That is the autocomplete cache. It holds addresses of people you send email > to. You can select names and press delete to remove them. > i know this but i can't locate some addresses which appear when using > auto correct The addresses you see in the autocompletion cache are completely unrelated to the address book or Contacts folder. SignatureBrian Tillman Can you please explain to me why in the contacts file you can add a spouse but not children, however if you pull up that contact in outlook address book, you can input children under personal. > There is no choice. Outlook Address Book contains only address lists built > from your contacts folders, not individual entries. If you had 10 contacts [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > >> > email, > >> > phone #s, etc. Not without knowing what version of Outlook you're talking about. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > Can you please explain to me why in the contacts file you can add a spouse > but not children, however if you pull up that contact in outlook address > book, you can input children under personal. Sorry, I am using Outlook 2000. I have also noticed that despite adding childrens names in the address book they do not show up in the contact address card. > Not without knowing what version of Outlook you're talking about. > > > Can you please explain to me why in the contacts file you can add a spouse > > but not children, however if you pull up that contact in outlook address > > book, you can input children under personal. Don't add information in the address book. Open up the contact from your Contacts folder and add it there. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > Sorry, I am using Outlook 2000. I have also noticed that despite adding > childrens names in the address book they do not show up in the contact > address card. > >> Not without knowing what version of Outlook you're talking about. >> > Can you please explain to me why in the contacts file you can add a spouse >> > but not children, however if you pull up that contact in outlook address >> > book, you can input children under personal. There isn't the facility to add it in contacts. This is mainly for personal use, ie Friend, spouse, children and associated birthdays for this family. Am I asking too much here. > Don't add information in the address book. Open up the contact from your Contacts folder and add it there. > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > >> > but not children, however if you pull up that contact in outlook address > >> > book, you can input children under personal. The Children field is available on the All Fields page. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > There isn't the facility to add it in contacts. This is mainly for personal > use, ie Friend, spouse, children and associated birthdays for this family. Am [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >> >> > but not children, however if you pull up that contact in outlook address >> >> > book, you can input children under personal. Thanks Sue I had found that option, I just wondered why in address book on personal tab if you click add it comes up with an icon and a box to put the name in. I cannot understand why this facility is there when although you say we should not add information from there it actually tells you to. Regards Karen > The Children field is available on the All Fields page. > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > >> >> > but not children, however if you pull up that contact in outlook address > >> >> > book, you can input children under personal. > Can you please explain to me why in the contacts file you can add a > spouse but not children Open the Conact item, choose the All Fields tab, select "Personal fields" from the drop-down, and add the children's names in the Children field. SignatureBrian Tillman You did not explain why the program offers the choice. MS Windows XP Pro 2002, Outlook 2002 From the main screen, click on the Address Book icon. (BTW, the window this will bring up has a drop-down box on the right, and your first "choice" is Outlook Address Book, which apparently is NOT a choice, so why does it even display? Why doesn't the first REAL book display?) Click on the New Entry icon. This brings up a window where you highlight either New Contact or New Distribution List from the list presented, then go down to the drop-down list at the bottom, WHICH AGAIN GIVES THE OPTION OF OUTLOOK ADDRESS BOOK, but it you choose that, it gives the message " You cannot create entries for this address book". The question, exactly as before, is if we CANNOT make entries in this supposed "address book", WHY is it CONSTANTLY offered as a choice throughout the program? > There is no choice. Outlook Address Book contains only address lists built > from your contacts folders, not individual entries. If you had 10 contacts [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > >> > email, > >> > phone #s, etc. If I understand your (Sue') reply correctly, the two entries (i.e., Outlook Address Book and Contacts) are not a list of two choices but a hierarchy where the Outlook Address Book happens to only contain a single item (Contacts)? I guess I hadn't noticed the indentation! Having now mastered how to mark an Outlook contacts folder "Show this folder as an e-mail Address Book" I've got what seems to me to be a related question: How do I get the items that are visible in Outlook's "Address Book" to be available to other programs such as the Microsoft Fax Console? I've read lots of threads, etc., and have found clues (WAB/Windows Address Book versus OAB/Outlook Address Book, etc.) -- some of which may be irrelevant to Outlook 2003 (which is what I'm using) -- but I haven't been able to configure the Fax Console to use the Outlook Address Book. Help? > There is no choice. Outlook Address Book contains only address lists built > from your contacts folders, not individual entries. If you had 10 contacts > folders that you wanted to see in the Outlook Address Book, it would have 10 > different lists underneath it. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > If I understand your (Sue') reply correctly, the two entries (i.e., Outlook > Address Book and Contacts) are not a list of two choices but a hierarchy > where the Outlook Address Book happens to only contain a single item > (Contacts)? I guess I hadn't noticed the indentation! Yes, that's exactly write. > Having now mastered how to mark an Outlook contacts folder "Show this folder > as an e-mail Address Book" I've got what seems to me to be a related question: > How do I get the items that are visible in Outlook's "Address Book" to be > available to other programs such as the Microsoft Fax Console? That would be something for the people who write the Fax Console software to work out, I'm afraid. It's not something that Outlook controls. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx Whenever you set Outlook to be your default Contact List manager for your operating system (Control Panel > Internet Options > Programs), Windows XP Fax will use your Outlook Address Book. SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > If I understand your (Sue') reply correctly, the two entries (i.e., > Outlook [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] >> 10 >> different lists underneath it. I checked the setting that Russ specified and found that "Contact List" was already set to "Microsoft Office Outlook." I tried changing it to the other choice ("Address Book"), applying the change, and then changing it back to see if that might give things a kick in the right direction, but Fax Console still seems to be looking at the address book associated with a Windows program named "Address Book" (and that address book is empty). I'm considering removing (uninstalling) the Windows component named "Fax Services" and then adding it back again because I seem to remember making some choices when I added Fax Services originally that were relevant to my current problem. However, I'm not planning to do that until I hear back from others. At one time, I had the Fax Console showing me the Outlook Address Book. I believe (but am not 100% sure) that things went amiss either when I installed a Microsoft update for Outlook or when I converted from the old format .pst file to the format introduced with Outlook 2003. I don't know if this is relevant, but "About" in Fax Console shows it to be Version 5.1 (build 2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519: Service Pack 2). > Whenever you set Outlook to be your default Contact List manager for your > operating system (Control Panel > Internet Options > Programs), Windows XP > Fax will use your Outlook Address Book. What you claim cannot be reproduced. When you properly configure your Outlook Address Book and set your OS to use it, Windows Fax will use it too. You've missed something. SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] >I checked the setting that Russ specified and found that "Contact List" was > already set to "Microsoft Office Outlook." [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] >> XP >> Fax will use your Outlook Address Book. Russ, For lack of anything else to try, I figured it was reasonably harmless to remove the Windows Component "Fax Services," reboot, and then add it back. Unfortunately, that turned up another problem. I have no idea whether this newly discovered problem underlies my Address Book problem or not. I'll describe what I encounterd here briefly, but it will not surprised if you and the other experts consider the Outlook discussions to be the wrong place to be looking for help with it (if that's the case, I'd appreciate any thoughts on where to find information!). However, maybe it will look familiar to someone... When I tried to add "Fax Services" back to Windows using the Windows Component Wizard (which I access via Add/Remove Programs), I got a series of "Setup cannot copy the file <filename>" messages even though the files were in the I386 folder where it was looking. Similar problems are described in a number of KB articles (e.g., 894351), but I've tried both resolutions listed and neither has solved the problem. Any constructive advice would be appreciated. ----------------------------------------------------- > What you claim cannot be reproduced. When you properly configure your > Outlook Address Book and set your OS to use it, Windows Fax will use it too. [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > >> XP > >> Fax will use your Outlook Address Book. Adding and removing the Fax Service is not recommended. We have posted information on this type of problem here: http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/FAQFAX.htm#_Toc88835132 SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > Russ, > [quoted text clipped - 72 lines] >> >> XP >> >> Fax will use your Outlook Address Book. Russ, I believe I may indeed have a corrupted security database, as http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/FAQFAX.htm#_Toc88835132 mentions. However, my attempt to get the hotfix mentioned in article 884018 was not successful because I have an OEM copy of XP (Media Center Edition) and, therefore, Microsoft won't provide ANY support unless I pay $59. It strikes me as a weird arrangement that, although MCE is a Microsoft product, Microsoft doesn't support it because MCE is ONLY AVAILABLE on OEM PCs. Anyway, the tech support people for the OEM (HP) are so lame that, without suggesting anything else first, they recommended that I do a System Restore. I'd be willing to pay Microsoft the $59 if I had any confidence that the hotfix was even applicable but, because I have Windows XP Media Center Edition (2005, SP2), I'm concerned that the hotfix may not be applicable. On the other hand, I'm told that MCE is basically XP Pro with some added components, so whatever the hotfix does may be relevant. Without access to the hotfix, I tried to re-create the local group policy file using the steps provided in various KB articles (e.g., http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/894351 ). I can follow the steps, but I don't really understand the Microsoft Management Console. I have a sense that I'm not really succeeding in recreating the file (if the group policy file is the secedit.sdb file, I know I'm not succeeding because I'm not ending up with a new secedit.sdb). As before, any constructive advice will be much appreciated. =================================== > Adding and removing the Fax Service is not recommended. > We have posted information on this type of problem here: [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] >> (e.g., 894351), but I've tried both resolutions listed and neither has >> solved the problem. Russ and others: I went to hell and back resolving the problem reinstalling Windows Fax Services. It took many telephone sessions of a Microsoft specialist calling me from India; he couldn't explain some of the symptoms my system was exhibiting either. Eventually we hit upon a procedure that succeeded in reinstalling Fax Services. After reinstallation, the Windows Fax Wizard showed my Outlook Address Book as it should. It was the disappearance of the OAB from the Fax Wizard that started me on this ordeal in the first place. Russ Valentine had replied to my description of this disappearance "cannot be reproduced"; let me come back to that in a moment because it CAN be reproduced. Part of the difficulty may be that I'm running Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) -- that was certainly part of the problem getting help with reinstalling the Fax Services component. Although Microsoft created XP Media Center Edition, they don't sell it to end users and, therefore, don't provide support for it (I had to pay). The support is supposed to come from the OEM's who sell MCE computers, in my case HP. However, the problems I was trying to overcome (OAB suddenly not available from Fax Wizard and then the inability to reinstall the Windows Fax Service) are fairly esoteric and clearly beyond HP's Windows XP expertise. HP tech support supervisors that that this was over their heads and eventually told me -- but wouldn't put it in writing -- that Microsoft should be willing to provide free support because it has nothing per se to do with MCE. They said they'd been told explicitly by their management that Microsoft will support issues that are beyond HP expertise. Try convincing Microsoft of that! Now, coming back to the reproducability of having access to the OAB disappear from the Fax Wizard. I can't tell you *what* makes it go away, but it has done so two or three more times for me since my initial battle. I can get it back each time by repeating the process of reinstalling Windows Fax Services from the Windows Component Wizard. I'd like to be able to report what makes it disappear (and to know for myself), but so far I haven't been able to pinpoint a cause. I'm going to try to remember to open the Fax Wizard at least once or twice per day in the hope of narrows down the cause. If anyone can suggest a more effective method, I'm all ears. Andrew Garvin --------------------- > Adding and removing the Fax Service is not recommended. We have posted > information on this type of problem here: > http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/FAQFAX.htm#_Toc88835132 >> Russ, >> [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] >>> too. >>> You've missed something. Sounds to me like you were a victim of an OEM support dispute. I've never seen this issue reported here, but no one with MCE seeks support in these groups since they are OEM's responsibilities. It would not surprise me a bit that Windows XP Fax wouldn't work as expected with MCE. SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > Russ and others: > [quoted text clipped - 97 lines] >>>> too. >>>> You've missed something. > Now, coming back to the reproducability of having access to the OAB > disappear from the Fax Wizard. I can't tell you *what* makes it go > away, but it has done so two or three more times for me since my > initial battle. I can get it back each time by repeating the process > of reinstalling Windows Fax Services from the Windows Component > Wizard. It would be helpful for others in the same situation as you of you were to post the steps required to get it back if it does disappear. SignatureBrian Tillman Sue, I am having the same problem with Outlook XP and OS XP Pro. I have imported contacts into the contacts folder the same way I have done on many computers. Imported a pst file or csv file. Both will come into the contacts directory but do not display in the address book. The option to show this folder as an Outlook Address Book is dimmed. I am not sure what to do. BTW your other answer helped and I found what was wrong with my dialog box fonts. Let me know if you need other info. sl826 > What "address book" are you referring to? Outlook's address book should be > exposing your Outlook Contacts folder as an address list. If it isn't, tell > us what you are seeing and in what version of Outlook. > > >I would like to use my Address Book off line. However there are no entries > > in it. Can I import data from my Contacts file into the Address Book? Sue, Disregard my last post. I found my address book file had vanished. I simply installed a new one and the problem was resolved. sc826 > What "address book" are you referring to? Outlook's address book should be > exposing your Outlook Contacts folder as an address list. If it isn't, tell > us what you are seeing and in what version of Outlook. > > >I would like to use my Address Book off line. However there are no entries > > in it. Can I import data from my Contacts file into the Address Book?
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