Offline address book

[Mick]

Hi

We are still using Outlook 97 on our Laptops at work. I would like to place
a copy of our "Global Address List (Offline)" which is located somewhere on
my works laptop, onto my own PC at home to save typing in several hundred
email addresses. Can anyone help with what I need to look for and how I can
do it?

 

[Brian Tillman]

We are still using Outlook 97 on our Laptops at work. I would like
to place a copy of our "Global Address List (Offline)" which is
located somewhere on my works laptop, onto my own PC at home to save
typing in several hundred email addresses. Can anyone help with what
I need to look for and how I can do it?

Looking at my PC seems to indicate that Outlook 2003, the Offline GAL is
located in the folder %UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook and the files have the type ".oab". Perhaps Outlook
97 is similar.

 

[Mick]

Thanks Brian

I have found the file you mentioned of the type ".oab" there are 5 files in
total, called "anrdex", "browse", "details", "rdndex" and "tmplts" as
"details" is the largest file I guess that is the one I am looking for. I
have tried to add a new personal address book but Outlook 2002 will not let
me as I already have one. I though if I created a new personal address book
I would be able to point it to the "details" file (or other file if not the
correct one). Do you know how I should do this, any help would be very
welcome.

Regards

Mick

 

[Brian Tillman]

I have found the file you mentioned of the type ".oab" there are 5
files in total, called "anrdex", "browse", "details", "rdndex" and
"tmplts" as "details" is the largest file I guess that is the one I
am looking for. I have tried to add a new personal address book but
Outlook 2002 will not let me as I already have one. I though if I
created a new personal address book I would be able to point it to
the "details" file (or other file if not the correct one). Do you
know how I should do this, any help would be very welcome.

"Personal Address Book" and "Offline Address Book" have nothing to do with
each other. In fact, the Personal Address Book is obsolete and shouldn't be
used. The OAB files are the offline version of the Global Address List. It
will be referenced by an Exchange account working offline.