"Earlier versions of Address Book gave you the option of using your
Microsoft Outlook Contacts folder in Outlook Express. If you accepted this
option, Address Book became a front end to Outlook, visible in Outlook
Express and any other applications that used Address Book. Contacts added
via Outlook thus became accessible to Outlook Express, and contacts added to
Address Book by means of Outlook Express options (such as Outlook Express’s
option to add the names of people you reply to via e-mail) became usable in
Outlook.

This integration with Outlook is still available in Address Book 6 (the
version shipped with Windows XP), but only via an undocumented registry
edit. To share contact information between Outlook and Address Book, open
Registry Editor, and go to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\WAB\WAB4. Add the DWORD
value UseOutlook to this key (if it isn’t already present), and set it to 1.
To return to the unintegrated state, return to this registry value and
either delete it or set it to 0.

The tradeoff for integration between Outlook and Address Book is that it
precludes your using identities in Address Book. If you are using Outlook
integration and you display the Folders And Groups pane in Address Book, you
see the subfolders of your Outlook Contacts folder instead of your shared
contacts and personal contacts. "

Quoted from:
Microsoft WindowsXP/Inside Out
Microsoft Press by Ed Bott and Carl Siechert
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
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"Vincenzo Di Russo [MVP]" wrote in message
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Vincenzo Di Russo [MVP] wrote:

Thomas G. Marshall wrote:
[...]
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=268579
"OLEXP: Import and Export Menu Items Are Unavailable in the Address
[...]
Thanks:

1. The OLEXP resolution report lists

.Microsoft Outlook Express 5.01 Service Pack 2
.Microsoft Outlook Express 5.0
.Microsoft Outlook Express 5.01 Service Pack 1
.Microsoft Outlook Express 5.0
.Microsoft Outlook Express 5.01
.Microsoft Outlook Express 5.0
.Microsoft Outlook Express 5.01 Service Pack 2

...mine is version 6. Was this "fixed" in version 6?

No.

In OE6 there is'nt the option "Do not share contact information among
Microsoft Outlook and other applications".
[...]

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Vincenzo Di Russo
Microsoft® MVP - Most Valuable Professional
Windows - Internet Explorer since 2003
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