creating address books

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The help info about Address Book refers to looking in different address books for a name. I have been unable to discover how to set up a new address book using Word 2003 or Outlook 2003. I have managed to create or find another book called "Personal Address Book" but this seems to accept only entries for email addresses, not the complete data associated with entries in "contacts".

I find the whole picture with respect to address books very disorganized and confusing. Am I alone in this, or is this a common problem? I am frustrated at not being able to find a good overview of all this. Does anyone know where to find one? I will be very grateful for any help.
 
Yes, everyone is confused about address books, to the extent that you will
rarely find a sensible answer about them. Anyone who gets any address book
to work in Word feels so lucky that he's not going to jinx himself by trying
to explain how it was accomplished (even if he knew)! You might want to have
a look at “WD2000: Which Address Books Can Be Used with Word?†at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=269111, which tells as much as any of us
know.

The main thing to know is that you *can't* use the Outlook Express address
book, which of course would be the natural and easiest thing for most OE
users. You *can* use a Contacts list from Outlook, but you'll have more luck
finding out how to do that if you ask in an Outlook NG.

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johnb91 said:
The help info about Address Book refers to looking in different address
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books for a name. I have been unable to discover how to set up a new
address book using Word 2003 or Outlook 2003. I have managed to create or
find another book called "Personal Address Book" but this seems to accept
only entries for email addresses, not the complete data associated with
entries in "contacts".
I find the whole picture with respect to address books very disorganized
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and confusing. Am I alone in this, or is this a common problem? I am
frustrated at not being able to find a good overview of all this. Does
anyone know where to find one? I will be very grateful for any help.
 
If you want to be sure that you have addresses available in Word, you need
to have Outlook defined as your default e-mail application, and you need
Outlook to carry your contacts lists. You can create as many contacts lists
as you need in Outlook and have them all available to Word.

Right click the contacts list, select properties, and ensure that on the
Outlook address book tab, the check box is flagged, which for additional
contacts lists, it will not be by default.

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FWIW, I do not use Outlook for email (OE is my default mail app), and I
still somehow miraculously have an address book in Word. At some point I
added one address in Word, which showed up in Outlook, and I just now tried
adding a contact in Outlook, and it showed up in Word. Perhaps what makes
the difference is that I don't use Word as an email editor? At any rate, I
just keep my fingers crossed and tread lightly in case I ever want to make
better use of the address book in Word. <g>

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
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all may benefit.
 
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