export my outlook address book BACK to outlook express?
 

so...I hate outlook. it's WAY WAY too slow...and I've learned how to use OE
to import all of my emails/folders etc back okay.

but OE reported that it can't import the outlook address book...

how do I do that?

Jim

export my outlook address book BACK to outlook express?
 

JVRudnick, you wrote on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:31:01 -0800:

so...I hate outlook. it's WAY WAY too slow...

Which version? Maybe following articles are helpful:
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/slow.htm
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940226/en-us

but OE reported that it can't import the outlook address book...

If your contacts in Outlook still exists you can do following:

Go to the Windows registry and navigate to the key

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Wab\WAB4

There create a DWORD-Value name "UseOutlook". Then doubleclick the value
and type a 1 in the value-field. Restart Outlook Express and the content
of Outlook's standard contact folder should appear.

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export my outlook address book BACK to outlook express?
 

I don't recommend using the hack if the user does not want to use outlook -
it will cause outlook to run every time OE is opened.

I don't have a Windows XP install handy to check but the Vista version of
the address book supports importing from Outlook. It can also import CSV
files - so at most you could export from Outlook to CSV and import the CSV.


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"Christian Goeller" wrote in message
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JVRudnick, you wrote on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:31:01 -0800:

so...I hate outlook. it's WAY WAY too slow...

Which version? Maybe following articles are helpful:
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/slow.htm
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940226/en-us

but OE reported that it can't import the outlook address book...

If your contacts in Outlook still exists you can do following:

Go to the Windows registry and navigate to the key

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Wab\WAB4

There create a DWORD-Value name "UseOutlook". Then doubleclick the value
and type a 1 in the value-field. Restart Outlook Express and the content
of Outlook's standard contact folder should appear.

--
Best Regards
Christian Goeller

MVP - MS Outlook
http://www.outlookfaq.net

export my outlook address book BACK to outlook express?
 

"JVRudnick" wrote in message
...
so...I hate outlook. it's WAY WAY too slow...and I've learned how to use
OE
to import all of my emails/folders etc back okay.

but OE reported that it can't import the outlook address book...

how do I do that?

Jim


Export your Outlook Contacts as a csv file and import that

export my outlook address book BACK to outlook express?
 

Christian Goeller wrote:

If your contacts in Outlook still exists you can do following:

Go to the Windows registry and navigate to the key

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Wab\WAB4

There create a DWORD-Value name "UseOutlook". Then doubleclick the
value and type a 1 in the value-field. Restart Outlook Express and
the content of Outlook's standard contact folder should appear.

Only for Outlook 2002 or earlier. It doesn't appear to work for OL
2003/2007.
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

export my outlook address book BACK to outlook express?
 

Brian Tillman, you wrote on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:32:39 -0500:

Only for Outlook 2002 or earlier. It doesn't appear to work for OL
2003/2007.

At least on my computers it works for Outlook 2003 without any problems
;-).

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Best Regards
Christian Goeller

MVP - MS Outlook
http://www.outlookfaq.net

export my outlook address book BACK to outlook express?
 

Christian Goeller wrote:

At least on my computers it works for Outlook 2003 without any
problems ;-).

Good. I was sure I tried it with OL 2003, but it was a while ago and maybe
I didn't.
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]