I am running a current and updated Windows XP Home and Office XP Pro on both
my computers. On one of my computers, Outlook Express will not share
"contacts" with Outlook.

Under Outlook Express Address Book, when I click on "Tools" there is no
"Options" button to select "Share Contacts."

I have checked different settings in both computers, and see no differences
in the two, other than the "Options" not being on the one.

Any ideas?

This link will explain it:

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

--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.
Thanks.


"Brad" wrote in message
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I am running a current and updated Windows XP Home and Office XP Pro on
both my computers. On one of my computers, Outlook Express will not share
"contacts" with Outlook.

Under Outlook Express Address Book, when I click on "Tools" there is no
"Options" button to select "Share Contacts."

I have checked different settings in both computers, and see no
differences in the two, other than the "Options" not being on the one.

Any ideas?

Jim,

Thanks. I used regedit and followed the directions. It does work and share
contacts now, however, I never did that on my other computer. Again, on it,
when you open Outlook Express, then open Address Book, click on "Tools"
there is an "Options" button that lets you select "Share contact
information..." or "Do not share...." Other than that, the end result is
the same. I can now share the contact list.

Do you have any idea why the "Options" button does not exist? I never did
that to my other computer.

Thanks,

Brad

Here's the original explanation that was forwarded to Slipstick explaining
it (and is a quote from a great book by Ed Bott and Carl Siechert and I
look forward to their next one for Vista):

quote
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.
/quote

Copied 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



"Brad" wrote in message
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Jim,

Thanks. I used regedit and followed the directions. It does work and share
contacts now, however, I never did that on my other computer. Again, on
it, when you open Outlook Express, then open Address Book, click on
"Tools" there is an "Options" button that lets you select "Share contact
information..." or "Do not share...." Other than that, the end result
is the same. I can now share the contact list.

Do you have any idea why the "Options" button does not exist? I never did
that to my other computer.

Thanks,

Brad