Outlook 2000 -no Contacts in e-mail form

[Guest]

I use Outlook 2000's Net Folders feature with a number of offsite users.
It's a brilliant way of sharing Outlook mail, contacts, calendar and journal
folders over the Internet -I share 15 folders. It was discontinued in OL2003
so I have to use OL2000.
I have it working tolerably well under Vista, except that when I open an OL
e-mail form and click the 'To' button, it accesses Vista's Windows Contacts
only. As Windows Contacts is empty no addressees can be selected.
I can workaround this by importing all my OL2000 contacts into Windows
Contacts, but as the former are changing all the time, it makes a
synchronization nightmare.

How can I set up Vista and OL2000 so my OL Contacts are available from the
'To' button in an OL e-mail form?

 

[Hal Hostetler [MVP P/I]]

Do you have the Outlook Address Book service loaded and have you set your
Contacts folder as an Outlook Address Book?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/197577/en-us
"Show this folder as an e-mail Address Book" check box is dimmed in Outlook
Contact folder properties

For other Outlook 2000 issues under Vista, look here:

http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/vista.htm
Does Outlook work on Vista?

Hal
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Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP-Print/Imaging -- WA7BGX
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[Guest]

Dear Hal,
Thanks for your reply ; yes, I have 7 different Contacts subfolders , and
for each of them the option "Show this folder as an e-mail address book" is
checked.
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Yours sincerely,
David G.

Do you have the Outlook Address Book service loaded and have you set your
Contacts folder as an Outlook Address Book?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/197577/en-us
"Show this folder as an e-mail Address Book" check box is dimmed in Outlook
Contact folder properties

For other Outlook 2000 issues under Vista, look here:

http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/vista.htm
Does Outlook work on Vista?

Hal
--
Hal Hostetler, CPBE -- (e-mail address removed)
Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP-Print/Imaging -- WA7BGX
http://www.kvoa.com -- "When News breaks, we fix it!"
KVOA Television, Tucson, AZ. NBC Channel 4
Still Cadillacin' - www.badnewsbluesband.com

 

[Hal Hostetler [MVP P/I]]

Then I suspect you may have discovered another incompatibility between
Outlook 2000 and Vista. As you may have seen from the link I posted, there
are issues with all versions of Outlook below 2003 when run on Vista.

Hal
--
Hal Hostetler, CPBE -- (e-mail address removed)
Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP-Print/Imaging -- WA7BGX
http://www.kvoa.com -- "When News breaks, we fix it!"
KVOA Television, Tucson, AZ. NBC Channel 4
Still Cadillacin' - www.badnewsbluesband.com

Dear Hal,
Thanks for your reply ; yes, I have 7 different Contacts subfolders , and
for each of them the option "Show this folder as an e-mail address book" is
checked.