contacts vs address-book in Outlook (Office 2000)...

[David Cook]

I have been synch-ing my addr-book between Outlook (from Office 2000
Premium)
and a PDA (Palm-OS). So, my approx 100 people, with their email addr and
some with other data (e.g.phone number and street addresses) were located in
both the Outlook addr-book and the Palm.

So, the other day, Win-XP got totally corrupted.

I've recovered from that...a brand instance of the OS is now in place,
and I struggled and finally got Office 2000 to finally install and work
(a battle in its own right).

I re-installed my Palm-OS software, so I can again 'synch' from its
USB-cradle
with the new bare-instance of Outlook, and when all the people-data (street
addrs
and email-addrs) when back into Outlook without a hitch.

I thought I was home free. But, alas, no. When I try to 'refer' to any of
these
'contacts' in an outgoing email, Outlook looks into something called a
'personal address book'. But, I want it to look in the 'contacts' list
(which I now realize must be a different ADDITIONAL entity, NOT to be
confused with a personal-addr-book. The 'help' info will allow me to
'convert' a personal-addr-book into a 'contacts' thing (folder,list,
whatever-it-is).

But, I want to go IN THE OTHER DIRECTION. Or, copy the data from 'contacts'
to 'personal-addr-book' or ...

Hell, YOU tell ME what I want to do. (It's hard to look up stuff in help
when you realize you don't even really understand the various objects or
what they're called.

How do I solve my problem?

TIA...

Dave

 

[Brian Tillman]

I re-installed my Palm-OS software, so I can again 'synch' from its
USB-cradle
with the new bare-instance of Outlook, and when all the people-data
(street addrs
and email-addrs) when back into Outlook without a hitch.

I thought I was home free. But, alas, no. When I try to 'refer' to
any of these
'contacts' in an outgoing email, Outlook looks into something called a
'personal address book'. But, I want it to look in the 'contacts'
list (which I now realize must be a different ADDITIONAL entity, NOT
to be confused with a personal-addr-book. The 'help' info will allow
me to 'convert' a personal-addr-book into a 'contacts' thing
(folder,list, whatever-it-is).

Outlook doesn't use the Personal Address Book and if it's in your profile,
you should remove it. Instead, you should add the Outlook Address Book
service to the profile and then, in the Contact folder's properties pages,
select the "Outlook Address Book" tab and check the "Show this folder as an
address book" box. The Outlook Address Book you see when you click the To
button is just a specialized view of your Contacts folder.