Are you certain these are true duplicates?
Remember, the Outlook Address Book shows all electronic addresses. If any of
your Contacts have email, pager or mobile phone numbers, they will appear as
well.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Nhmiller" wrote in message
...
That's not what I told you to do.
I told you to remove the Outlook Address Book Service. Restart Outlook.
Re-add the Outlook Address Book Service and make sure your Contacts
Folder
is enabled as an email address book WITHOUT renaming it (which is what
you
said you did). Then restart Outlook again. Re-read the article I posted
in
my first post, please, and follow it.

OK, did all that. The Microsoft web site said nothing about deleting the
Address Book, just to go on if it was there. But now that I understand
better
how this all works, I saw that you wanted me to delete it.

Then did the re-add with check box and the import. The error message
doesn't
come up and all the contacts are in the Contact Folder -- the one and only
Contact Folder that shows up in the print to fax Address Book. And "New"
works
now, too. No error messages.

But, there are still two listings for each listing in the print to fax
Address
Book. That's not because the print to fax Address Book is also pulling the
names from Outlook and from *.wab, as I renamed the *wab and *wa~ files in
Documents and Settings to see if that was the reason. If I enter new
contacts
in Outlook manually, there is only one name per contact that shows up in
the
print to fax Address Book.

I have so few contacts that I'm not concerned about copying and pasting
from
*wab to Outlook Contacts. But for the sake of others reading this thread
who
may have a huge Windows Address Book, if you do know why the duplicate
names
are showing up in the print to fax Address Book, let me know.

Thanks for all your help.

Neil
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