address book in outlook 2007

[Gerry]

I moved my outlook mail file from an old computer to a new vista/office 2007
pc. the preconfigured mail file messed up and I imported my main into a new
file. It seems to be working fine now. However, I don't have access to the
contacts email addresses or any address book for that matter. I've tried:

Click on the To button. If nothing shows, right-click on your Contacts in
the
folder list. Scroll to Properties. Click on the Outlook Address Book tab.
Check the box that tells Outlook to show the folder as an address book.

But the check box is grayed out. Any suggestions? tks. gm.

 

[Gerry]

Further, I just realized that the copy of office I have is from an
enterprise version and may be expection an address book from that direction.
Not sure.

 

[Gordon]

I moved my outlook mail file from an old computer to a new vista/office
2007 pc. the preconfigured mail file messed up and I imported my main into
a new file. It seems to be working fine now. However, I don't have access
to the contacts email addresses or any address book for that matter. I've
tried:

Click on the To button. If nothing shows, right-click on your Contacts in
the
folder list. Scroll to Properties. Click on the Outlook Address Book tab.
Check the box that tells Outlook to show the folder as an address book.

But the check box is grayed out. Any suggestions? tks. gm.

That's one of the symptoms of importing a PST file instead of opening it.
You have probably got a corrupted mail profile.
create a new one, (control panel-mail-show profiles-add) and OPEN the pst
file instead of importing.
Why not import?

(Courtesy of Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook])

Importing an entire PST may well corrupt your profile and may create a ghost
PST that you can't close. Importing PST's will lose:
1. Custom Forms
2. Custom Views
3. Connections between contacts and activities
4. Received dates on mail
5. Birthdays and anniversaries in calendar
6. Journal connections
7. Distribution Lists

Opening a PST file will preserve all of these. That is why we do not advise
people to import a native file into Outlook.