New Email TO: brings up ?Address book?

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LadyDungeness

Outlook 2002. Something changed somplace. When I write a New email
and click the TO icon, I get a SELECT NAMES dialog box. I want it to
bring up my Contacts instead. It used to bring up the Contacts. How
can I change it back?


Lady Dungeness
Crabby, but Great Legs!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Open your Address Book - tools->options->use the dropdown to set your first preferred folder for contacts.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:

| Outlook 2002. Something changed somplace. When I write a New email
| and click the TO icon, I get a SELECT NAMES dialog box. I want it to
| bring up my Contacts instead. It used to bring up the Contacts. How
| can I change it back?
|
|
| Lady Dungeness
| Crabby, but Great Legs!
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
L

LadyDungeness

I tried that, Milly, but it won't stick. My Contacts are named AH
Contacts. That's what I chose in the dropdown. I applied, closed
Outlook, restarted -- it still defaults to the "Address Book."


Lady Dungeness
Crabby, but Great Legs!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 13:30:01 -0700, "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"

|Open your Address Book - tools->options->use the dropdown to set your first preferred folder for contacts.
|
|--?
|Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
|
|Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|reading.
|
|After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:
|
|| Outlook 2002. Something changed somplace. When I write a New email
|| and click the TO icon, I get a SELECT NAMES dialog box. I want it to
|| bring up my Contacts instead. It used to bring up the Contacts. How
|| can I change it back?
||
||
|| Lady Dungeness
|| Crabby, but Great Legs!
|| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Is your AH contacts folder marked as an Outlook Address Book? Right click, properties, outlook address book tab.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:

| I tried that, Milly, but it won't stick. My Contacts are named AH
| Contacts. That's what I chose in the dropdown. I applied, closed
| Outlook, restarted -- it still defaults to the "Address Book."
|
|
| Lady Dungeness
| Crabby, but Great Legs!
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
|
| On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 13:30:01 -0700, "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
|
|| Open your Address Book - tools->options->use the dropdown to set
|| your first preferred folder for contacts.
||
|| --?
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:
||
||| Outlook 2002. Something changed somplace. When I write a New email
||| and click the TO icon, I get a SELECT NAMES dialog box. I want it
||| to bring up my Contacts instead. It used to bring up the Contacts.
||| How can I change it back?
|||
|||
||| Lady Dungeness
||| Crabby, but Great Legs!
||| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
L

LadyDungeness

I think I goofed. I unchecked the boxes for my Contacts folders to be
listed as Outlook Address Books. The "AH Contacts" was never a folder
-- it was the label on the rolodex-icon in the left pane. Now when I
create a new email, click the icon on the TO line, I get the
following: "The address book could not be displayed ... " and then
the Outlook Address Book opens, blank.

I still cannot get my Outlook Contacts to open.


Lady Dungeness
Crabby, but Great Legs!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~





On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:29:48 -0700, "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"

|Is your AH contacts folder marked as an Outlook Address Book? Right click, properties, outlook address book tab.
|
|--?
|Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
|
|Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|reading.
|
|After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:
|
|| I tried that, Milly, but it won't stick. My Contacts are named AH
|| Contacts. That's what I chose in the dropdown. I applied, closed
|| Outlook, restarted -- it still defaults to the "Address Book."
||
||
|| Lady Dungeness
|| Crabby, but Great Legs!
|| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
||
||
|| On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 13:30:01 -0700, "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
||
||| Open your Address Book - tools->options->use the dropdown to set
||| your first preferred folder for contacts.
|||
||| --?
||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
|||
||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
||| reading.
|||
||| After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:
|||
|||| Outlook 2002. Something changed somplace. When I write a New email
|||| and click the TO icon, I get a SELECT NAMES dialog box. I want it
|||| to bring up my Contacts instead. It used to bring up the Contacts.
|||| How can I change it back?
||||
||||
|||| Lady Dungeness
|||| Crabby, but Great Legs!
|||| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Thank you - we get the message. Now calm down.

This is only a news group, not rocket science. If you do not find the answer you want, and refuse to accept that pressing the TO: will ALWAYS bring up your Address Book, then you are welcome to contact Microsoft directly (Product Support Services - although that might not help since Outlook 2002 is out of mainstream support) for assistance.

By the way, to configure what gets shown first, open your Address Book, select Tools->Options. Use the dropdown.

I know, I know, this has been posted to you several times but it appears that somewhere a connection is not being made. Just my $ .02.


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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:

| I SAID, I DON'T GIVE A RAT'S A$$ WHAT EVERYBODY ELSE THINKS.
 

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