None of the settings you make to an Outlook profile will take effect until
you restart Outlook, including configuring the address book view.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Cowtoon" wrote in message
...
Thanks. I'll do that. I've only every once had luck searching the
newsgroups. I'll do the google newsgroups instead, moving forward. I
prefer to do more searching before I post to the newsgroup ... especially
when I have time and I did spend a lot of time looking ... but in all the
wrong places, it appears. To give myself a little levity on this
particular problem ... I really didn't know what to search for.

For what it's worth ... (and I'm not sure how it happened), my "to" field
is now working. I fussed around with a few more suggetions on the link
I'd sent you. I carried out some instruction and nothing appears to
happen ... but I tried more than one thing that appeared ineffective. I
need to remember that some things don't work until O/L is restarted (not
to self!!). Anyway, after restarting O/L, the "to" field pointed
correctly. I don't know what to attribute this to, but am glad it's
working.

I had another problem that was entirely easy to search and find a
solution. On the new system, send/receive wouldn't automatically run when
starting O/L. I had to force it. In O/L's own help, there was a fix and
it was your fix. Tada! I "copied" the send/receive account, applied all
the same settings and now it's working. Gottalikethat! It won't let me
delete the old one, but I renamed it as bad and removed all settings for
it.

Thanks for all the insights, as usual. Always appreciated.

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
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Microsoft has always believed that importing a PST file works no matter
how many times we have demonstrated that it does not. Microsoft has
always believed that its public newsgroups are searchable. They are not.
Use Google groups instead. You'll get 33,800 hits:
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...rch+this+group

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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Cowtoon" wrote in message
news
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
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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
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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.