Old Computer has OE set to share its Contacts with Outlook. The owner does not
use Outlook. The last time I tried to separate them, the Contacts disappeared,
so I obviously did something wrong.

New Computer wants to use OE with WAB. What are the recommended best practices
for separating the conjoined WAB and Outlook Contacts (PST?) on Old Computer
such that WAB can be moved to New Computer? Export is grayed out.

When sharing is enabled, the contacts are in the Outlook PST file. When
you stop the sharing, OE goes back to using the WAB file that was in use
before the sharing. The WAB file likely doesn't have the contacts you
want. It won't have anything added after the sharing was enabled.

You need to Export the Contacts from Outlook to a CSV (Comma Separated
Values) text file (before or after you end the sharing).

You can't import or export from Outlook Express while sharing is
enabled.

Then once the sharing is turned off, you can import the CSV file into
the Outlook Express WAB file. Or since you are moving to a new
computer, you can import the CSV file on the new PC.

For more information, see:

The Windows Address Book (WAB)
http://www.insideoe.com/files/wab.htm

To share Contacts between Outlook and Outlook Express
http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/oeshare.htm


--

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


"mcp6453" wrote in message
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Old Computer has OE set to share its Contacts with Outlook. The owner
does not use Outlook. The last time I tried to separate them, the
Contacts disappeared, so I obviously did something wrong.

New Computer wants to use OE with WAB. What are the recommended best
practices for separating the conjoined WAB and Outlook Contacts (PST?)
on Old Computer such that WAB can be moved to New Computer? Export is
grayed out.

Do you have this Registry key?...

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\WAB\WAB4

If not, STOP; If so, is there a DWORD named UseOutlook (NB: no space) and is
its value set to 1 (one)?

If not, STOP; If so, Address Book is configured to share contacts with
Outlook, even if you don't use it (can happen with the install of Office).
Change the value to 0 (zero), Address Book should be available to you and
all should be well. (If that DWORD is not present, don't create it, and
don't alter any other DWORD values.)

Note that any changes (additions, deletions, edits) made while sharing was
enabled will not be available (displayed) in Address Book when sharing is
disabled.

cf. http://www.insideoe.com/files/wab.htm#share
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=191946
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MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
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mcp6453 wrote:
Old Computer has OE set to share its Contacts with Outlook. The owner does
not use Outlook. The last time I tried to separate them, the Contacts
disappeared, so I obviously did something wrong.

New Computer wants to use OE with WAB. What are the recommended best
practices for separating the conjoined WAB and Outlook Contacts (PST?) on
Old Computer such that WAB can be moved to New Computer? Export is grayed
out.

Michael Santovec wrote:
When sharing is enabled, the contacts are in the Outlook PST file. When
you stop the sharing, OE goes back to using the WAB file that was in use
before the sharing. The WAB file likely doesn't have the contacts you
want. It won't have anything added after the sharing was enabled.

You need to Export the Contacts from Outlook to a CSV (Comma Separated
Values) text file (before or after you end the sharing).

You can't import or export from Outlook Express while sharing is
enabled.

Then once the sharing is turned off, you can import the CSV file into
the Outlook Express WAB file. Or since you are moving to a new
computer, you can import the CSV file on the new PC.

For more information, see:

The Windows Address Book (WAB)
http://www.insideoe.com/files/wab.htm

To share Contacts between Outlook and Outlook Express
http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/oeshare.htm


Thanks Michael and PA Bear. Sharing was apparently enabled from Day One,
so I did the CSV export/import. As far as I can tell, all is well.

You are welcome and thanks for posting back.

--

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


"mcp6453" wrote in message
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Michael Santovec wrote:
When sharing is enabled, the contacts are in the Outlook PST file.
When you stop the sharing, OE goes back to using the WAB file that
was in use before the sharing. The WAB file likely doesn't have the
contacts you want. It won't have anything added after the sharing
was enabled.

You need to Export the Contacts from Outlook to a CSV (Comma
Separated Values) text file (before or after you end the sharing).

You can't import or export from Outlook Express while sharing is
enabled.

Then once the sharing is turned off, you can import the CSV file into
the Outlook Express WAB file. Or since you are moving to a new
computer, you can import the CSV file on the new PC.

For more information, see:

The Windows Address Book (WAB)
http://www.insideoe.com/files/wab.htm

To share Contacts between Outlook and Outlook Express
http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/oeshare.htm


Thanks Michael and PA Bear. Sharing was apparently enabled from Day
One, so I did the CSV export/import. As far as I can tell, all is
well.