Outlook should make it easier to connect Mailbox and Address Book

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Have new laptop, Outlook will not use my Contacts list when I click "To" to
send an email. Says address list could not be displayed. Tried all help
options, none work.

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Russ Valentine said:
Easily corrected if you simply follow the instructions:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;287563&Product=ol2002
Click to expand...

Russ,

I followed these instructions and it is still the case that When I click on
"To:" from either Email or from the Calendar (if I'm inviting someone to a
meeting), I do not get the full list of people in my Contacts list. I have
checked and double-checked to make sure that Contacts is accessible to the
Address book. Everything looks right except that I can't access individuals
in my Contacts when I click on "To:"...

Using Outlook 2002.

-- J. Smith
 
Re: my contacts not being in the list of contacts available from either Email
or Calendar... I finally figured it out through *much* trial and error.

Turns out that if someone in your Contacts does not have an email address,
they will not show up in your Address book. I get why, but you'd think the
system help or elsewhere would make this clear. Therefore, you can't make an
appointment with someone from your Contacts database *from the Calendar*
unless they have an email address.

But there is a workaround...

You can, however, set up a meeting/calendar item with an email-less entry,
but do so *from inside of the Contacts db*, not the Calendar. Right click on
the contact *as you're dragging it* to the Calendar icon. (Real obvious...)

You then have the following choices:
* Address as new meeting [requires an email address be present; the rest
below do not]
* Copy here as appointment with text [this pastes the contact info into the
notes about the calendar item; it also pastes the name of the contact into
the Subject for the meeting]
* Copy here as appointement with shortcut [similar to above, but puts
shortcut to vcard in notes field of meeting; click on the vcard to get the
details of the contact.]
* Copy here as appointment with attachment [same as above but actually puts
the vcard into the notes instead of a shortcut to it]
* Move here as appointment with attachment

-- J. Smith
 
The only purpose of the Outlook Address Book is to provide a list if
electronic addresses to which you might want to send messages. Accordingly,
only those Contacts with electronic addresses will appear.
 
Jillaine said:
I followed these instructions and it is still the case that When I
click on "To:" from either Email or from the Calendar (if I'm
inviting someone to a meeting), I do not get the full list of people
in my Contacts list.
Click to expand...

Outlook won't include a contact in the Address Book view if that contact
doesn't have an electronic address. Is that the case here?
 
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