I followed these instructions:

Step 2: Mark your contact folder for use with your address book
On the File menu, point to Folder, and then click Properties for your folder
name.
On the Outlook Address Book tab, click to select the Show this folder as an
e-mail address book check box, type a descriptive name, and then click OK.

"Show this folder" was already checked. When I am in my Inbox or an email I
am writing and I click the Address Book icon, it STILL says I have no Address
Book. A window pops up and I can choose between a useless, empty Contacts
and the second one, which works. All this is extremely time-consuming and
annoying. I need Outlook to go IMMEDIATELY to my Contacts without all this
confusion.

"Russ Valentine" wrote:

You never import Outlook data to restore it. You just open the Outlook data
file.
When you do, you will be able to configure your address book view to display
your Contacts the same way as always:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...Product=ol2002
--
Russ Valentine
"Mike Row Soft" wrote in message
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My hard drive burned up, so I replaced it, reinstalled, and imported
everything into Outlook. The contacts are there if you click contacts.
However, when sending emails, there is no way to connect to my contacts.
It's like they are invisible.

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