I have read through the other postings on the community board and am still
confused. None of the replies seems to exactlyl match my problem, though some
come close.

I have Microsoft Office as part of my Office 11 suite. I have been using
Outlook as my default email application, but as I also list on eBay under a
different ID and use software which works best with Outlook Express (lets
call it 'AS'), I have also set up an Express account. I have Outlook set as
the default on the machine, but before using AS, I change the default to
Express and open up that account. Seems to work well, and any emails that
happen to come in to the express account whilst that is the default, I
transfer back to my normal Outlook application just before closing down
Express.

But here's the problem. When I was experimenting with various options, I
have lost the facility to show my Outlook contacts as an address list. If I
go to 'tools/address book' in Outlook, I can see all the details as a simple
list of names and emails. One of the other postings on this board seems to
imply that this is simply an automatic list of any email addresses that have
been sent in the past, but if I click on one of the entries, then the usual
contact card comes up, with addresses, phone numbers etc. So they must be
there somewhere! HELP PLEASE! :-?