import address book

[Guest]

As far as I can see you should be able to import an address book into Win XP Pro (exported to a floppy from old pc with Win98SE - saved as .WAB file)by just going into the new address book and clicking on Import, however my Import and Export are both greyed out and it doesn't matter what I click or highlight I can't get it so its not greyed out - can anyone help please

 

[PA Bear]

Have you copied the WAB file to WinXP's hard-drive and removed the Read Only
attribute it will have by default?

Is MS Outlook or Office also installed*?

References:

Backup & Restore OE Data
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/backup/index.htm

OE Files & Settings
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/files/index.htm

Address Book
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/files/wab.htm
*(http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/files/wab.htm#share)

Importing OE Data
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/faqs/how.htm#importOE5
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/faqs/how.htm#importdbx

OE Freebie Backup
http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx

Using WinXP's FAST Wizard, by MVP Gary Woodruff
(Please read the caveats about Outlook Express)
http://aumha.org/win5/a/fast.htm
--
OE6-specific newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress

HTH...Please post back to this thread

~Robear Dyer (aka PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP

Protect Your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

 

[NobodyMan]

As far as I can see you should be able to import an address book into Win XP Pro (exported to a floppy from old pc with Win98SE - saved as .WAB file)by just going into the new address book and clicking on Import, however my Import and Export are both greyed out and it doesn't matter what I click or highlight I can't get it so its not greyed out - can anyone help please

Go to an appropriate newsgroup (for OE). This one is for the XP OS.
Bye Bye now!