Wish I could recall how I did the reinstall. As I said earlier, or at least
I think I said, all I did was reinstall Outlook from the instatllation disk.
I would be happy to do that again, hopefully correctly, so that I can stop
spending so much time spinning my wheels. If I have to reenter all of my
contacts, so be it. This situation is not any good. Thanks for your help.
Understand about the contact folders and have got that part working up to a
point, but calendar is non-functional and worthless. The PIM feature is very
useful to me and I would like to get it working.

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John F. Passafiume, Colonel, USA Retired
AKA Colonel Flagg
"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
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In no version of Outlook should you ever have used the address book for
data entry or editing. Now you see why. You completely lose track of where
that data goes or whether you have even saved it. There is no address book
in Outlook. All data is stored in Contact Folders. Use Folder List view to
see how many Contact Folders you now have, consolidate them if you have
more than one, and use only that Contact Folder for data entry.

You've obviously created some serious problems with the connection to your
Outlook Data File when you reinstalled Outlook. We can't solve them until
you answer my question about how you did that.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

"John Passafiume" wrote in message
k.net...
Thanks for your expeditious response to my query.

This is from help/about:
Microsoft Outlook 2000 SR-1 (9.0.0.3821)
Internet Mail Only

Don't recall being given any options when I installed Outlook. Ditto in
re address book.
Pretty sure I was able to make changes to address book entries in
previous version of Outlook I had been using (probably Office 97 to my
best recollection). If I have to reinstall Outlook, that is no problem. I
really have gotten used to the calendar and it hurts not to be able to
use it.
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"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
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You never use the address book to make entries. It is merely a view of
your Contact Folders.
All Contact data resides is the Contacts Folders and that is the only
place you should enter or edit data.
Provide more detail on your version (include the mail support mode: Line
2 of Help | About if you don't know). State how you configured your
Outlook data file in this installation and how you configured your
address book.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"John Passafiume" wrote in message
ink.net...
I have recently installed Windows XP w/SP1 as well as Office 2000. I am
using Outlook as my email client and like it having used it before when
I was using Outlook under Windows Me. When I installed XP, I also
reinstalled Office 2000. Email worked fine with no glitches. But am
having problems:
(1) When I try to place a new ently in the address book, I find that
Outlook has remembered all of my all email friends names, but "forgot"
all of the addresses. When I go to address book and click on name to
edit, the system appears to work, allowing me to make entries such as
email address, phone, etc. But when I go back to address book after
having saved info, nothing but the original name is there -- all the
new stuff is gone.When I get an email and right click on the senders
address to add a contact, that works fine. This doesn't make sense.
(2) When I add the new contact as above, I am hounded with reminders
about contacting that person. How do I get rid of or edit reminders?
Have tried to turn off and it doesn't work.
(3) Cannot add meetings, appointments, etc. to calendar. System lets me
make entries and than calendar shows nothing.



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John F. Passafiume, Colonel, USA Retired
AKA Colonel Flagg