Russ ...
This article - is it perhaps misleading? It's one of the sources I used ...
when I imported my pst. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/287070
Appreciate your insights.

By the way ... when I do a search for "address book" (in message) ... this
post is the only one that shows up. I use Windows Mail for the newsgroups
(don't use the web interface). Would that explain why I don't get the
results you might expect.

"Cowtoon" wrote in message
...
Of course. Outlook 2003. Vista 64.

Whenever I've reformated and started again, (previous OS's) all I had to
do was point to the pst file (backed up) and all was good. This wouldn't
work on this time. Maybe I'm just going senile and don't remember.

Anyway ... Outlook created a default .pst file and wouldn't let me change
the default to my existing .pst file. The only alternative I could think
of, was to import. There were problems with this at first because the
file was on my old pc which was failing. I searched for and found a way
to repair it (scanpst.exe). That worked and the emails (with my folders)
imported nicely and my when I clicked "contacts", all of my addresses also
imported just fine.

The problem - which I cannot find a fix for - is that my address book
doesn't display when I click the "to" field in a new email message. I
don't know what to search for. I tried contacts, address book, the 'to'
field ... I'm not sure what's failing .. so I don't know what else to look
for.

Thanks for your help.

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
...
Of course the answer exists. It's hard to imagine that you "tried and
tried" without stumbling upon the answer. If you had, you would know that
importing is never the correct way to transfer Outlook data. You would
also know that even if you had followed the countless posts here that
tell you how to transfer data correctly, you would still need to
configure your address book service. If any of the many posts here fail
to provide the information you need, please tell us what information you
lack. Do not hesitate to provide your Outlook version and all other
relevant information when you do.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Cowtoon" wrote in message
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I'm sure the answer to this exists, but I just can't find it and I must
be typing the wrong words for help. I've tried and tried.

I just finished reinstalling everything onto my system. My email
imported as did my addresses, however, when I click the "to" field to
select an address, it doesn't display my contact list. It's in the
dropdown list. There appears to be 2 empty contact lists in the mix. I
don't have any duplicate personal folders and there isn't ven a folder
for the contact (not sure if there's supposed to be one or not).

How do I make this work.
Thanks.