how to find outlook address book?

[Gordon]

I'm using Outlook 2002 and I want to export my address book into Spamarrest.
Where is the address book located? When I search for *.wab, I find my old
outlook express address book.

It's within your pst file as Contacts.

 

[badgett]

I'm using Outlook 2002 and I want to export my address book into Spamarrest.
Where is the address book located? When I search for *.wab, I find my old
outlook express address book.

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[demon]

You could try looking for a *.pab file if you used a personal address book
rather than contacts. However if you are using contacts you could try
opening the contacts list and export feature.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Outlook has not used a PAB for many years.
Exporting is no longer a recommended way to transfer Contacts because it can
create a file that is not compatible with other versions of Outlook.
The only safe way to transfer Contact data is to create a PST file in the
correct format and copy the Contacts into that file.

 

[demon]

The guy did say "address book" not contacts and you are wrong im afraid as
when you add a personal address book outlook all versions installs a
mailbox.PAB by default. As for exporting it has worked for me many times
however on occasions its better to import "pull rather than push" .

Outlook has not used a PAB for many years.
Exporting is no longer a recommended way to transfer Contacts because it
can create a file that is not compatible with other versions of Outlook.
The only safe way to transfer Contact data is to create a PST file in the
correct format and copy the Contacts into that file.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

You could try looking for a *.pab file if you used a personal address
book rather than contacts. However if you are using contacts you could
try opening the contacts list and export feature.

 

[JeffG]

Outlook has not used a PAB for many years.

A question of semantics:

Outlook might not have used a PAB for many years, that much is true.

However, PEOPLE using Outlook (up to and including Outlook 2003) are
STILL able to use PAB's, and I know quite a few that do...

JeffG

 

[Gordon]

The guy did say "address book" not contacts and you are wrong im afraid as
when you add a personal address book

Exactly. You have to ADD the pab. Outlook does not create that by
default. Therefore the vast majority of users have their addresses in
the Contacts folder.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

And they should all be encouraged not to. The option to use PAB's exists
only for legacy purposes. It is an interface that has undergone no
development, does not retain full integration with Outlook and is no longer
a supported way to store Contact data.

 

[Gordon]

BZZZZZZZZT!

Sorry, Russ is rarely wrong (99.999% right - the magic 5 nines) - the reason
he is a respected cardiologist.

How does he find time to be a cardiologist AND an MVP?

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

BZZZZZZZZT!

Sorry, Russ is rarely wrong (99.999% right - the magic 5 nines) - the reason
he is a respected cardiologist. Would you want a cardiologist who is
"almost always" right? Not me.

He is as good with Outlook issues as he is with the heart - unless fatally
damaged - as Outlook is in many scenarios.


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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, demon asked:

| The guy did say "address book" not contacts and you are wrong im
| afraid as when you add a personal address book outlook all versions
| installs a mailbox.PAB by default. As for exporting it has worked for
| me many times however on occasions its better to import "pull rather
| than push" .
|
|
| || Outlook has not used a PAB for many years.
|| Exporting is no longer a recommended way to transfer Contacts
|| because it can create a file that is not compatible with other
|| versions of Outlook. The only safe way to transfer Contact data is
|| to create a PST file in the correct format and copy the Contacts
|| into that file. --
|| Russ Valentine
|| [MVP-Outlook]
|| ||| You could try looking for a *.pab file if you used a personal
||| address book rather than contacts. However if you are using
||| contacts you could try opening the contacts list and export feature.
|||
|||
||| |||| badgett wrote:
||||| I'm using Outlook 2002 and I want to export my address book into
||||| Spamarrest. Where is the address book located? When I search for
||||| *.wab, I find my old outlook express address book.
|||||
||||
|||| It's within your pst file as Contacts.
||||
|||| --
|||| Interim Systems and Management Accounting
|||| Gordon Burgess-Parker
|||| Director
|||| www.gbpcomputing.co.uk

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Sleep is optional.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Don;t know about the sleep thingie but Doctors are well-known for their
ability to work long shifts. As for being an MVP - he has been as long as
me, which is since 1999.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After furious head scratching, Gordon asked:

| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
|| BZZZZZZZZT!
||
|| Sorry, Russ is rarely wrong (99.999% right - the magic 5 nines) -
|| the reason he is a respected cardiologist.
|
| How does he find time to be a cardiologist AND an MVP?

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

No differently than any other MVP. Every one has a "day job" and demands on
their time no less than mine.