Outlook 2007 Address Book in Vista

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Hi,

I'm running the full GA of Vista Business and Office 2007, and I have a
strange issue in Outlook. My system is set up to run via POP3, and my Address
Book usually (i.e. in 2003 before the upgrade) contains my default Contacts.

The Help suggests I simply need to select properties for the Contacts folder
and check the 'Show this folder as an email address book', but unfortunately
this option is greyed out. This situation is covered again in Help, which
suggests I go to Account Settings and add an Outlook Address Book. When I go
there, I already have an (empty) OAB listed. It won't let me delete this
address book, and when I try to change it, I get a message telling me to
check the 'Show this folder...' message.

Has anyone else got caught in this situation, or have any suggestions on how
I can get Outlook to recognise my Contacts when I type in a name for an email?
 
The Personal Address Book has a .pab file extension and its default location
is drive:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook.

1.. On the File menu, click Import and Export.
2.. Under Choose an action to perform, click Import from another program
or file, and then click Next.
3.. Under Select file type to import from, click Personal Address Book,
and then click Next.
4.. Under Select destination folder, click Contacts or a subfolder under
Contacts.
5.. Click Finish.
The Outlook Address Book is created automatically and contains the contacts
in your default Contacts folder that have either e-mail addresses or fax
numbers listed. These contacts are displayed in the Address Book dialog box
when you click Contacts in the Address Book list. When Microsoft Office
Outlook is using an Exchange account in Cached Exchange Mode, the Outlook
Address Book is also available offline.
If you create additional contacts folders, you can set the properties for
each folder to include the contacts as part of the Outlook Address Book.

CH
 
I had the same problems but found the following worked. Close Outlook.
Create a new profile (Control Panel, under user accounts). Set this as the
default profile. Open Outlook, then import the .pst file. My contacts now
appear when I click on the "To:" button.

I have read under other postings that the Vista migration tool does not work
properly for this application.
 
Peter said:
Another useless leech post
Click to expand...

Then why don't you EXPLAIN to the poster you are replying to WHY it's
useless rather than just posting that waste of bandwidth?
 
Gordon said:
Then why don't you EXPLAIN to the poster you are replying to WHY it's
useless rather than just posting that waste of bandwidth?
Click to expand...

I'm complaining about you complaining about him complaining.

ss.
 
Gordon, it is you wasting bandwidth by replying. I am warning others not to waste
their time and bandwidth which they do by answering these useless posts

Because it is useless to answer these posts. Look at the properties and you will see
posted by Usenet Gateway. It is leeching and has no point to it and has no previous
post to which they are answering to. Point period
 
Peter Foldes said:
Gordon, it is you wasting bandwidth by replying. I am warning others not
to waste their time and bandwidth which they do by answering these
useless posts
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Bandwidth? It was a <1KB post.

I could understand when sysops complained about wasting bandwidth on BBS,
when I connected using my Amiga with a 300baud modem, but in these days of
multi-megabit broadband and bittorrent P2P, streaming video, and even Usenet
binaries, I think it's a bit silly to talk about a 1KB post wasting
bandwidth!

ss.
 
SS

The answer was simply in reply to Gordon and his "wasting bandwidth"what he posted
to me
 
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