Outlook 2007 Contacts versus Address Book

[Frenchy]

Have Outlook 2007 as part of Office Pro 2007 with Vista Ultimate. I
notice that the Address Book is actually the 'Outlook Contacts'. If I
go to enter/save a new entry, it will not allow me to use the drop down
box and put it in "Outlook Address Book". So there are no entries in
the OAB and everything is in Contacts.

Is this a problem? Everything works, BUT I am chasing the problem of
Red x's in any HTML place holder in incoming E-Mails, so wonder if I
could add the sender to my OAB instead of Contacts would it make any
difference?

Frenchy

 

[Gordon]

Have Outlook 2007 as part of Office Pro 2007 with Vista Ultimate. I
notice that the Address Book is actually the 'Outlook Contacts'. If I go
to enter/save a new entry, it will not allow me to use the drop down box
and put it in "Outlook Address Book". So there are no entries in the OAB
and everything is in Contacts.

You misunderstand the purpose of the Outlook Address Book. ALL Outlook
address data is held in the Contacts folder - that is where you add, edit
and delete Contact information.
ALL the Addressbook is, is a view of your contacts folder for the purposes
of adding a recipient to an email. THAT IS ALL IT DOES.
Therefore you are quite correct in saying that you can't add addresses to
the Addressbook view - that needs to be done in CONTACTS.

HTH

 

[Frenchy]

You misunderstand the purpose of the Outlook Address Book. ALL Outlook
address data is held in the Contacts folder - that is where you add,
edit and delete Contact information.
ALL the Addressbook is, is a view of your contacts folder for the
purposes of adding a recipient to an email. THAT IS ALL IT DOES.
Therefore you are quite correct in saying that you can't add addresses
to the Addressbook view - that needs to be done in CONTACTS.

HTH

Thanks. So why is the "Outlook Address Book" even mentioned? You don't
add new addresses in there?

Frenchy

 

[Gordon]

Thanks. So why is the "Outlook Address Book" even mentioned?

I presume it's a throwback to when Outlook mused a PAB...

You don't add new addresses in there?

No - use the Contacts window.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Thanks. So why is the "Outlook Address Book" even mentioned? You
don't add new addresses in there?

And to add what Gordon says, the Outlook Address Book is a service that,
when you click the To button in a new message window, will present to you
all of the contacts in your Contacts folders that have resolved electronic
addresses - either email or fax. In order for you to see ANY of your
contacts when you click To, the Outlook Address Book service must be
configured properly in your mail profile and each of the Contacts folders
you have that you want to be able to reference when choosing an address must
be enabled as address books.

 

[DL]

The OAB may be taken as a filtered view of the Contacts

 

[Frenchy]

And to add what Gordon says, the Outlook Address Book is a service that,
when you click the To button in a new message window, will present to
you all of the contacts in your Contacts folders that have resolved
electronic addresses - either email or fax. In order for you to see ANY
of your contacts when you click To, the Outlook Address Book service
must be configured properly in your mail profile and each of the
Contacts folders you have that you want to be able to reference when
choosing an address must be enabled as address books.

Thanks, Perfect explanation

Frenchy