"westy" wrote in message
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When typing a new message, I click the "To:" button and another screen comes
up.

That's the Outlook Address Book view of your Contacts folders.

Then on that screen there is a list of all of my contact groups (under
address book), with all the emails in their associated group. (i.e. The
contact groups are listed and I click one and all the users pop up.)

I do not need to manipulate the ones I automatically see there. I do not
see any of my contact lists when I go to the contacts tab. That is the
issue. They seem to be there in the system, but not when I go to the
contacts tab.

What "Contacts tab" do you mean? Do you mean you click the Contacts button at
the bottom of the Navigation Pane? You should see all of the folders yo have
that contain contacts items. Try using hte Folder List view and see if you
see the contacts folders then.
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]