If you can't get Outlook to export to the CSV file, that's an Outlook
issue and you'll get the best help in an Outlook newsgroup. Not many of
us Outlook Express people know much about Outlook.

If you get the CSV file, you can open it in Notepad and make sure that
is has the expected data. As for the expected formatting, you can
export from the WAB to CSV and see what OE creates.

Use the following newsgroups for questions or problems with
Outlook97/98/2000+
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ok.calendaring
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...tlook.contacts
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ic.outlook.fax
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...utlook.general
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...k.installation
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...utlook.interop
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...tlook.printing
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...program_addIns
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof....program_forms
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ok.program_vba
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ok.teamfolders
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...thirdpartyutil

You can also get to the Outlook97/98/2000+ newsgroups via this web site:
http://support.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx
There select Desktop Applications then Outlook

For help with Outlook97/98/2000+ see:
Slipstick Systems Outlook and Exchange Solutions Center
http://www.slipstick.com/index.htm


--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Al Guim" wrote in message
...
Thanks for the reply, Kuay. I still don't understand why I would not
be able
to export something off the Outlook on my work computer, send that
file home,
then import it on Outlook Express once I get it there. I tried
creating a
.csv from Outlook by using the Import and Export Wizard and selecting
'Export
to a file', then Comma Separated Values (Windows), then I get a
'Select
folder to export from:' window which shows me all the folders in my
mailbox.
I can't select the .pab which is where all my addresses are. I also
tried
importing the .pab into a new folder I created in the mailbox but the
process
goes 2/3 of the way, stops and says it encountered a MAPI 0x80070057
error
and please try again later. Guess if I can't do it some workaround
way I'll
have to do them manually. I will do that before I spend money on
installing
Outlook when Express does all I need it to do. Thanks again for the
help.
--
Al Guim


"Kuay Tim" wrote:

Hi Al,

Outlook would need to be installed on your home PC for what you're
trying to
do to have a chance of success -- it has the necessary converters for
such
an import/export process to work. Import from Outlook on the same
PC.

What can be done is to export the Outlook Contacts as a File,
Comma-Separated Values (Windows) (*.csv).

The CSV file, which is supported by OE/Windows Address Book, can be
used to
import the address book entries into Outlook Express.

--
Tim K.
aka Kuay Tim
MS-MVP - Outlook Express
Lynnwood, WA
*
"Al Guim" wrote in message
...
Well, I've searched the newsgroups high and low but haven't found
what I
need
to do this with. I found how to go from OE to OL but not the other
way
around. My address book in .pab form exists on OL2000 in my computer
at
work. Now that I got one at home that is running OE6.0 I'd like to
transfer
it over. So I email myself the .pab file from work and then try to
import
it
into OE and it asks me for a .wab file. I tried converting the .pab
to a
..csv and then to a .wab to see if that would work, but I can only
get a
window that asks me which of the folders in OL I want to export from.
I
can't browse for the .pab file, no matter where it is located. I'm
sure I
can either do this by some sleight of keyboard or it can't be done
and I
have
to copy my addresses over manually. Arggghhh!! Any help would be
greatly
appreciated; my apologies if this has been covered before and I
couldn't
find
it. Thanks!
--
Al Guim