Share outlook contacts between outlook and windows mail

[Vishal Sheth]

Can I use the outlook contacts with windows mail? I don't want to import or
add from scratch.

Regards,
Vishal Sheth

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Not directly. You will have to export from Outlook and import into
Windows Contacts. Also, those two sets of contacts won't stay in sync.

 

[Vishal Sheth]

The problem is I maintain all my contacts in outlook. I use the same for
email. Now I'm using windows mail for email as I'm getting my
pictures/photos displayed in outlook. I don't want to maintain 2 contact
lists. Is there a way to sync it? Import Export would not solve.

Regards,
Vishal Sheth

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Sorry, I'm not aware of any way to share and sync one set of contacts
between Outlook and WM.

Windows Live Mail has a mechanism for syncing contacts among
several computers by use of a common Hotmail account, but that
won't help with Outlook. Perhaps the Outlook experts have some
ideas for a workaround:

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.general

 

[Hal Hostetler [MVP P/I]]

This used to be possible with Outlook Express through some registry
manipulation:

http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/oeshare.htm
To share Contacts between Outlook and Outlook Express

I seriously doubt this trick will work with Windows Mail.

Hal
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