My contacts do not show up in "Show Names From The" list

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Worked fine on my Outlook 2000, but can't figure out how to make it appear with my recent upgrade to Outlook 2003.
All I get in the "Show Names From The" list are my exchange server email addresses. No list of Contacts. I still have Contacts listed in with my folder list, just not available to choose from when addressing an email. Makes it difficult to address email. Anyone know where to put that in there at?
 
Where do thee Contacts reside if not in your Exchange Server mailbox?
Have you enabled the Contacts Folder as email an email address book (R click
Properties)
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Theresa said:
Worked fine on my Outlook 2000, but can't figure out how to make it appear
Click to expand...
with my recent upgrade to Outlook 2003.
All I get in the "Show Names From The" list are my exchange server email
Click to expand...
addresses. No list of Contacts. I still have Contacts listed in with my
folder list, just not available to choose from when addressing an email.
Makes it difficult to address email. Anyone know where to put that in there
at?
 
That must be it. But going to the Properties of Contacts on the Outlook Address Book Tab, I can't check mark the Show this folder as an e-mail address book. It is grayed out. Any idea why?
 
That would mean you do not have the Outlook Address Book Service installed
in your Profile.
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.

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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Theresa said:
That must be it. But going to the Properties of Contacts on the Outlook
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Address Book Tab, I can't check mark the Show this folder as an e-mail
address book. It is grayed out. Any idea why?
 
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