Address Book vs. Contacts vs Bus Contacts

[Kathryn Birstein]

I would like to use Outlook 2003 Contacts for Personal
contacts and the Business Contacts in the Business
Contact Manager for my business names. In the properties
of the regular Contacts I have checked "Show this as an
Outlook Address book" but when I click to write an email
and click "To" I get the following error "THe address
list cound not be displayed. The Contacts folder
associated with this address lsit could not be opened; it
may have been moved or deleted, or you do not have
permissions."

When I click OK I get into "Select Names" dialog box but
the "Show Names from the:" drop down box has the
2 "Accounts", 2 Business Contacts and 4 "Contacts"
listed. I think this happened while I was attempted to
import my data from Outlook Express and ACT. I have two
MDF files and deleted outlook.pst 3 times because I kept
doing the import from OE wrong.

So the question is, how can I fix Outlook 2003 so that
only "Contacts" and "Accounts" and "Business Contacts"
appear in the "Show Names from the:" list and how can I
choose a default address book (I would like it to
be "Business Contacts".

Thanks so much.

Kathryn

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Ick. That is one corrupted Address Book Service. Your best bet is just to
remove the Outlook Address Book Service entirely. Restart Outlook and Re-add
it. Then go through and designate which folders you want enabled as email
address books in the Properties of each Folder.