I have recently migrated from Outlook Express on a W2K
(with a shared address book to Outlook) to Outlook 2007 on
a Windows Vista machine then to Outlook 2003 on a WinXP
professional PC. The process of transferring the contacts
folder was so convoluted that I cannot remember exactly
what I did.

The problem is that when composing an email, the only
addresses that resolve are those from people I have
received emails from since migrating.

If I click on the 'contacts' tab I can see all my contacts
and the email addresses are all underlined.

If I click on tools/address book/outlook address book' no
entries are listed. If I select 'contacts' as the address
book then all email addresses are there.

My contact details appeared to be in a .pab file so I
imported that into the Outlook file (sorry cannot remember
if address or contact) but made no difference. But if I
add a new contact then only the .pst folder is updated -
no longer the pab folder.

If I click file/folders/properties for contacts' then
'show this folder as an e-mail address book' is checked.
The address book is 'contacts'.

You can probably tell that I have googled this fairly
thoroughly. Anyone any further ideas?

Davy