I need to copy or back-up the entire contents of my address book [all
contacts and personal information for each] to a removeable stick drive in
order to save and reinstall after my hard drive has been cleaned and
reformatted.

"Shawn76 via OfficeKB.com" <u57604@uwe> wrote in message
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> You can export it to a pst file,

WRONG! You do NOT "export" to a pst file UNLESS the data is in MS Exchange.
Otherwise, just close Outlook and copy the pst file.

"garydoyle" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I need to copy or back-up the entire contents of my address book [all
> contacts and personal information for each] to a removeable stick drive in
> order to save and reinstall after my hard drive has been cleaned and
> reformatted.

This is posted and answered SO MANY TIMES in these groups, on a daily basis.
Did you not think to do ANY searching first?
How to backup and restore Outlook

http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm
http://www.slipstick.com/config/backup.htm
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...771141033.aspx

There is out-dated information on some of these pages, specifically with
regard to Outlook 2003 and 2007.

The main points to note:
1. Do NOT use the import/export function to move Outlook data from one
version to another - all you need to do is to copy the pst file, with
Outlook closed.

2. Do NOT paste the copied pst file into the default location - paste into
(for example) your Documents folder and then do File-Open-Outlook Data File
within Outlook.