convert *.pab file to Outlook 2007

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Jan D.

I have 908 files I need to convert. I used the covert function and only got
200 to convert to vfile. I need those files. Will converting them to excel
and importing them into 2007 work? Be gentle, I don't post often and DID
check all posts. Some of you are ROUGH, lol. I really need your help!! (I
don't dare ask about appointments)
 
You have 908 SEPARATE .PAB files? Or 908 address items inside those PAB
files?

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-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
http://www.officeforlawyers.com



I have 908 files I need to convert. I used the covert function and only got
200 to convert to vfile. I need those files. Will converting them to excel
and importing them into 2007 work? Be gentle, I don't post often and DID
check all posts. Some of you are ROUGH, lol. I really need your help!! (I
don't dare ask about appointments)

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I have 908 address inside ONE PAB file., Sorry, that would be tooo aweful,
lol. I didn't understand the OE (?outlook express-which I didn't use)
means.-Jan
 
Ah. Well Outlook 2007 should let you import those fairly directly.
File | Import and Export | Import Internet Mail and Addresses...

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I have 908 address inside ONE PAB file., Sorry, that would be tooo aweful,
lol. I didn't understand the OE (?outlook express-which I didn't use)
means.-Jan

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I wish. It imported 200 of them. Only the newer Vcards. Not helpful. I
need to know, if anyone knows, if I can export the 2003 files to excel (I
know I can do this) then IMPORT them to 2007 by matching fields (as you could
do in other versions of OL. I can't find a reference and I don't want to try
with a large file and I don't want to have to reinstall. It always leaves
nasty crumbs of application files everywhere.
Thanks
Jan
 
Do you still have the original .PAB files? You shouldn't need to do
anything with vCards - just directly import from the .PAB.

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I wish. It imported 200 of them. Only the newer Vcards. Not helpful. I
need to know, if anyone knows, if I can export the 2003 files to excel (I
know I can do this) then IMPORT them to 2007 by matching fields (as you could
do in other versions of OL. I can't find a reference and I don't want to try
with a large file and I don't want to have to reinstall. It always leaves
nasty crumbs of application files everywhere.
Thanks
Jan

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I'm not making myself clear. I have 900+ entries in my 2003 outlook
contacts. They are *.pab file format. When I installed Outlook 2007 the
conversion took place but the only contacts that converted were approx. 200
contacts which were newer, PRESUMED vCard files, because they all appreared
to be my corporate contacts and none of my person friends, family etc. I
tried a manuel conversion and the same thing happened. Therefore, the
conversion is not occuring for the majority of my contacts. THUS I NEED
ANOTHER ALTERNATIVE. I assume when people ask for help here, the standards
have been tried. I'm looking for something else. For example, I'm
interested in knowing about the possibility of the Excel conversion. Anyone
know? Thanks
Jan
 
Well, you’re still not making yourself clear. :-)

A .PAB file is a Personal Address Book. There generally is no need to
have more than one or two of them.

What you have, I'm guessing, is a single .PAB file that contains 900+
entries. A .PAB file is NOT the Outlook Contacts folder. If you have
an Outlook Contacts folder that is stored in a .PST file. You may ALSO
have a .PAB file as an address book. Furthermore .PAB files do not
contain vCards - a vCard is a file format of its own for transmitting
contact data between users - sort of like an electronic business card.
It's possible, I suppose, that you used Outlook 2003 with a .PAB file
created in an earlier version (though that is not the recommended way to
do it) and that you received vCards from people and added that
information (but not the vCard itself) to the .PAB file; though that
sounds pretty odd to me.

So...trying to untangle this...

Are your 900+ entries in the Outlook 2003 Contacts folder? Or are they
in the Outlook 2003 ADDRESS BOOK (not the same thing as the Contacts
folder) which could be a .PAB file?

I doubt that vCard has anything to do with this; it's a whole separate
file format. It's possible, I suppose, that you have a bunch of
individual vCard files laying around but that's incidental to a .PAB
file.

Finally - never assume that when people ask for help here that they have
tried anything at all. In fact quite a few of our posters haven't tried
anything, Googled anything or read anything. There is way for me to
know what you have or have not tried (especially when your terminology
doesn't make sense) and if I were to assume you've already tried the
things that should work then I'd spend a lot more time spinning my
wheels. If you don't specify that you did it, I'll have to ask if you
did.

So...the questions on the table - just trying to be very clear here:

* The file which you say contains 900+ entries. Is that a .PAB file?
Or is that a .PST file? Was it your Outlook 2003 CONTACTS folder or
your Outlook 2003 ADDRESS BOOK?


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-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
http://www.officeforlawyers.com



I'm not making myself clear. I have 900+ entries in my 2003 outlook
contacts. They are *.pab file format. When I installed Outlook 2007 the
conversion took place but the only contacts that converted were approx. 200
contacts which were newer, PRESUMED vCard files, because they all appreared
to be my corporate contacts and none of my person friends, family etc. I
tried a manuel conversion and the same thing happened. Therefore, the
conversion is not occuring for the majority of my contacts. THUS I NEED
ANOTHER ALTERNATIVE. I assume when people ask for help here, the standards
have been tried. I'm looking for something else. For example, I'm
interested in knowing about the possibility of the Excel conversion. Anyone
know? Thanks
Jan

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Ben,

I appreciate you dedication to trying to help me, but now I'm totally
confused. My *.pst file is my file folders not my address book and not my
contacts. It holds all my files of all my EMAIL, not my contact information.
I don't want that information transfered. I began saving contact/address in
Windows 97 and have carried it through 98, ME (ARG) and the present XP and
have snyc'd it with a palm os and now with my iPac. When I save my ADDRESSES
to move them in a clean fashion or if I get dups and want to start over, my
override or back up is a *.PAB. That is my ADDRESSES and where I get the
information I now what on my Windows 2007 in contacts so I can sync my new
blackberry. My office PC (where my *.PAB file is) won't let me use a
blackberry, so I have to get it on my home PC which runs Window 2007. I can
see a lot of typing in my future.
Jan
 
What is OE? Outlook Express? IF so, do I have to put my *.PAB into outlook
express first and then transfer whatever file that makes it into, into my
outlook 2007? Is that the answer? I am following another thread and have
asked that same question.
Jan
 
The PST file in Outlook contains all of the data folders (unless you
have an Exchange mailbox): Inbox, Contacts, Calendar, Tasks, Journal,
Notes, Deleted Items, etc. and any subfolders thereof. If you're in
Outlook and you click on the Contacts folder the data you see there is
in the .PST file.

The other thing you have in Outlook (and here I'm talking primarily
about older versions of Outlook; pre-2003) is an Outlook Address Book
which USED to use a .PAB (Personal Address Book) file to store the
entries in it. The .PAB file just contains, generally speaking, name
and e-mail address information. The Contacts folder contains that, plus
phone number, postal address, notes, and other such info. In Outlook if
you click on the "Address Book" button on the toolbar one of the things
you'd find there is the content of any .PAB file that Outlook is
configured to use. That's separate from the Contacts folder.

Outlook 2007 does not support .PAB files so when you configure Outlook
2007 it will attempt to import all of the data from any .PAB file it
finds into the Outlook Contacts folder (so that data is now stored in
the .PST file).

I've seen that conversion succeed (almost always) and fail
(occasionally) but I've never seen it partially succeed (import 200 out
of 900). It could be that the .PAB file is corrupted, I suppose, but I
haven't seen that result before. Perhaps others here have.

--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
http://www.officeforlawyers.com
 
Outlook 2007 no longer retains any backwards compatibility with PAB files
(including the ability to import from them) since users were warned to
abandon PAB files over a decade ago. This conversion should have been made
long before now and can only be made in an earlier version of Outlook.
 
Thanks russ, but since I didn't need the help, I never read any "warnings".
Anyway, I told the bold step and did what I originally asked what I hoped
might be the answer. And it worked. The answer folks is VERRRRY SIMPLE.
For future benefit for all. Outlook anything export to excel-to import to
2007. Left the defaults alone and it imported PERFECTLY. Then I sync'd it
with my blackberry and all is awesome. It took me 20 min. start to finish.

Thanks all. A good one to keep for the rest of us dinosauers.
Jan

Russ Valentine said:
Outlook 2007 no longer retains any backwards compatibility with PAB files
(including the ability to import from them) since users were warned to
abandon PAB files over a decade ago. This conversion should have been made
long before now and can only be made in an earlier version of Outlook.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Ben M. Schorr - MVP (OneNote) said:
The PST file in Outlook contains all of the data folders (unless you have
an Exchange mailbox): Inbox, Contacts, Calendar, Tasks, Journal, Notes,
Deleted Items, etc. and any subfolders thereof. If you're in Outlook and
you click on the Contacts folder the data you see there is in the .PST
file.

The other thing you have in Outlook (and here I'm talking primarily about
older versions of Outlook; pre-2003) is an Outlook Address Book which USED
to use a .PAB (Personal Address Book) file to store the entries in it.
The .PAB file just contains, generally speaking, name and e-mail address
information. The Contacts folder contains that, plus phone number, postal
address, notes, and other such info. In Outlook if you click on the
"Address Book" button on the toolbar one of the things you'd find there is
the content of any .PAB file that Outlook is configured to use. That's
separate from the Contacts folder.

Outlook 2007 does not support .PAB files so when you configure Outlook
2007 it will attempt to import all of the data from any .PAB file it finds
into the Outlook Contacts folder (so that data is now stored in the .PST
file).

I've seen that conversion succeed (almost always) and fail (occasionally)
but I've never seen it partially succeed (import 200 out of 900). It
could be that the .PAB file is corrupted, I suppose, but I haven't seen
that result before. Perhaps others here have.

--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
http://www.officeforlawyers.com
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Nothing you posted has anything to do with information that is in a PAB
file. You must have been posting inaccurate information.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Jan D. said:
Thanks russ, but since I didn't need the help, I never read any
"warnings".
Anyway, I told the bold step and did what I originally asked what I hoped
might be the answer. And it worked. The answer folks is VERRRRY SIMPLE.
For future benefit for all. Outlook anything export to excel-to import to
2007. Left the defaults alone and it imported PERFECTLY. Then I sync'd
it
with my blackberry and all is awesome. It took me 20 min. start to
finish.

Thanks all. A good one to keep for the rest of us dinosauers.
Jan

Russ Valentine said:
Outlook 2007 no longer retains any backwards compatibility with PAB files
(including the ability to import from them) since users were warned to
abandon PAB files over a decade ago. This conversion should have been
made
long before now and can only be made in an earlier version of Outlook.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Ben M. Schorr - MVP (OneNote) said:
The PST file in Outlook contains all of the data folders (unless you
have
an Exchange mailbox): Inbox, Contacts, Calendar, Tasks, Journal,
Notes,
Deleted Items, etc. and any subfolders thereof. If you're in Outlook
and
you click on the Contacts folder the data you see there is in the .PST
file.

The other thing you have in Outlook (and here I'm talking primarily
about
older versions of Outlook; pre-2003) is an Outlook Address Book which
USED
to use a .PAB (Personal Address Book) file to store the entries in it.
The .PAB file just contains, generally speaking, name and e-mail
address
information. The Contacts folder contains that, plus phone number,
postal
address, notes, and other such info. In Outlook if you click on the
"Address Book" button on the toolbar one of the things you'd find there
is
the content of any .PAB file that Outlook is configured to use. That's
separate from the Contacts folder.

Outlook 2007 does not support .PAB files so when you configure Outlook
2007 it will attempt to import all of the data from any .PAB file it
finds
into the Outlook Contacts folder (so that data is now stored in the
.PST
file).

I've seen that conversion succeed (almost always) and fail
(occasionally)
but I've never seen it partially succeed (import 200 out of 900). It
could be that the .PAB file is corrupted, I suppose, but I haven't seen
that result before. Perhaps others here have.

--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
http://www.officeforlawyers.com




Ben,

I appreciate you dedication to trying to help me, but now I'm totally
confused. My *.pst file is my file folders not my address book and
not
my
contacts. It holds all my files of all my EMAIL, not my contact
information.
I don't want that information transfered. I began saving
contact/address in
Windows 97 and have carried it through 98, ME (ARG) and the present
XP
and
have snyc'd it with a palm os and now with my iPac. When I save my
ADDRESSES
to move them in a clean fashion or if I get dups and want to start
over,
my
override or back up is a *.PAB. That is my ADDRESSES and where I get
the
information I now what on my Windows 2007 in contacts so I can sync my
new
blackberry. My office PC (where my *.PAB file is) won't let me use a
blackberry, so I have to get it on my home PC which runs Window 2007.
I
can
see a lot of typing in my future.
Jan

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I have 908 files I need to convert. I used the covert function and
only got
200 to convert to vfile. I need those files. Will converting them
to
excel
and importing them into 2007 work? Be gentle, I don't post often
and
DID
check all posts. Some of you are ROUGH, lol. I really need your
help!! (I
don't dare ask about appointments)
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