Hello Milly;

Wow, I have this same problem. I no longer have access to the old computer,
however all of my contact names are listed in the contacts section under "all
contacts" in the new HP computer. (I have tried all of the Microsoft fixes
and the arrows are grayed out or it will not allow removal of the address
book and all of the other goodies). Is there a way to locate the file that is
in the new computer?

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

Yes, the Windows transfer does a lousy job with Outlook data. Copy your old .pst file from the old computer to the new. Put it in My Documents or a place that you regularly backup.

In Outlook, use File-Open-Outlook Data file and navigate to your copied .pst file. Open it and either use it as your default .pst file or copy the information you want from it to the new .pst file.

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After furious head scratching, asked:

| Got new Dell. Imported Outllook 2003 contacts to Outlook 2007 using
| Windows transfer utility that came with Dell. Contacts are visible but
| are not searchable, do not show up in pull down address list. If I
| open each contact and resave it, they are searchable, but I have too
| many contacts to do that one by one. Any suggestions?