Simplest is to create a new address book (Start/Run and type: WAB /new)
and give the book a name and location to be stored at. Then open Outlook
Express for each identity and copy to the clipboard all of the contacts for
that identity (select All, Ctrl+A). Then open your new address book and
paste all of the contacts into it. Switch identities and copy/paste the
remaining contacts from the second identity into your new address book. Now
use that new address book to import from to whatever machine you wish.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
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I have two identities.
I can export each identities part of the address book individually -
good. However, I haven't figured out how to export the shared
contacts.

My purpose is to sync two computers address books, which doesn't seem
to be possible without getting involved with an Excel spreadsheet.

I would also like to backup the message rules.
There doesn't seem to be any way to do this either.
Where are they stored, -- file, registry, where???

thanks