Turns out you're right. I misstated the problem.
OE was installed first, of course, as it came with the
computer. I set it up for one of my personal mailboxes,
and entered addresses only from incoming mail to that box.
Outlook was set up on my old PC with a file tree of
contacts. folders and subfolders and subsubfolders, by
category of addressee, for easier manual searching.
When i reinstalled it on the new computer, I first tried
copying the old PC's outlook.pst over the new one's, but
that did not work. Someone advised me that I had to Import
it, but I found Outlook provides only for importing from
other programs. So I fired up the old PC one last time,
exported it as a tab-delimited file, and imported that.
Now, Outlook has the same e-mail that was on the old PC,
and the same Contacts file tree. I can go to any address
card in Contacts and click Actions to send a message to
that person. I can also reach them by using Reply. But if
I start a new message to someone whose name is only in my
Outlook Contacts file tree, OUtlook does nto fill it in.
When I click on find more names, it shows me only the
main Contacts directory and the one subsubdirectory I've
added since the install -- all the other sub files are not
there. E.g.: My ontacts tree has subfolders for Personal,
PR Contacts, and Editors. The only folders I see when I
click on show more names are Contacts and Former -- but the
latter is actually contacts/local/doctors/former.
What confused me was that somehow I get the same two files
--Contacts and Former -- in OE. And adding a name to
Contacts, whether in OE or O2000, makes it show up in both.
So what I really need to know is: how can I get O2000 to
recognize the subfolders under XP that it did under 98?
And if I could give my OE a totally separate address book,
so much the better; but that's not as important.
-Ivan Berger
contacts/personal/doctors/former
-----Original Message-----
No version of Outlook has ever used the Contact store in OE, nor can it do
so. What makes you think it is? What mail support mode of Outlook are you
using? Describe how you imported your Contacts.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Ivan Berger said:
I used Outlook 2000 on my old computer, running under
Win98. Before scrapping my old PC, I reinstalled 02000 on
my new, XP computer and exported the old PC's Outlook.PST
file. Outlook on the new machine now shows all the
contact info and e-mails from the old one.
However, if I type a name into the TO: line on an e-mail,
O2000 looks for it in my Outlook Express address book
(which has different contacts) rather than in its own. How
do I fix this? I have hundreds of contacts in Outlook and
do not really want to copy them all to OE.
-Ivan Berger
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