Does my address book have to include all my contacts?

[Guest]

Some of my address book listings do not have any other contact information
but an e-mail address. Why does this person need to be in my contact list?
I'd like to keep my address book seratate from the contact list

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

I don't think you understand. There is no address book in Outlook. The
address book is merely a dynamic display of the electronic addresses in your
Contacts Folder. All data resides in the Contacts Folder. There is nowhere
else you can store it. --
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

 

[Brian Tillman]

Some of my address book listings do not have any other contact
information but an e-mail address. Why does this person need to be
in my contact list? I'd like to keep my address book seratate from
the contact list

The Address Book in Outlook contains no data at all. It's just a view of
your Contacts
folder(s).

 

[Vanguard]

Some of my address book listings do not have any other contact information
but an e-mail address. Why does this person need to be in my contact
list?
I'd like to keep my address book seratate from the contact list

The Outlook Address Book is not actually an address book. It is a
placeholder directory of whatever contact-type folders you include in it.
You right-click on a contact-type folder and can enable the option under the
Outlook Address Book tab as to whether or not you want that contact-type
folder included. If you have multiple contact-type folders, you should
label each with a different name so you can differentiate them when
selecting which one to default to or use when viewing the Outlook Address
Book object.

You can more than one contact-type folder, and you can select which to
include or not include in the Outlook Address Book.

The Windows Address Book (.wab file) is an entirely separate address book.