Address book. OE it works outlook dosent

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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

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You are opening the Windows Address Book when you see your Contacts, not the
Outlook Address Book.
Where are your Contacts stored?
 
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
Outlook Address Book.
Where are your Contacts stored?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
K Fuller said:
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

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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

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Alison Rieple said:
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
Outlook Address Book.
Where are your Contacts stored?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
K Fuller said:
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

(e-mail address removed)
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