Personal address book in Outlook 2000

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We are still using the Personal Address Book in Outlook
2000, but need to export it as a text file for another
program. I understand that to do that we will need to
import the Personal Address Book into Contacts. Is that
the only way, and will that destroy our Personal Address
Book?
 
Hard to say. PAB's have been deprecated and have not been in general use for
at least 6 years, so I'm not sure anyone can even still check for you.
Importing the PAB into Contacts will not destroy the PAB. It may be a good
time to do so anyway, since the Outlook Address Book has replaced the PAB
and it's not certain how long backwards compatibility with PAB's well be
retained.
 
You can use it as the data source for a mail merge in Word, using the
catalog format to generate a comma- or tab-delimited file.
 
But Contacts is hideously bloated when all we need are
the email addresses that we use frequently.

-----Original Message-----
Hard to say. PAB's have been deprecated and have not been in general use for
at least 6 years, so I'm not sure anyone can even still check for you.
Importing the PAB into Contacts will not destroy the PAB. It may be a good
time to do so anyway, since the Outlook Address Book has replaced the PAB
and it's not certain how long backwards compatibility with PAB's well be
retained.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
We are still using the Personal Address Book in Outlook
2000, but need to export it as a text file for another
program. I understand that to do that we will need to
import the Personal Address Book into Contacts. Is that
the only way, and will that destroy our Personal Address
Book?
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