The address book view is what I assumed you were using when you said you
couldn't find your contacts "when sending an email." But it was unclear what
view you were actually using.
The settings that determine whether a Contacts Folder will appear in the
address book view are unique to the profile, not the data file. Outlook only
enables the default Contacts Folder as an electronic address book in a new
profile. The rest you must do yourself, even though you migrated your data
file in exactly the right way.
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Russ Valentine
"McGibb" McGibb.4aerua@invalid wrote in message
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Hi Russ,

By relinking I meant, before I restinalled outlook I created an outlook
folder in c:\Users\user\appdata\local\microsoft, then copied my old
outlook.pst into there.
Then after reinstall, outlook cretaed an oulook1.pst. In datafile
management I added outlook.pst as a data file, made it the default and
removed outlook1.pst from the list.
Closed and opened outlook. All appeared ok.

As far as the addres view, I'm not sure what you mean.
I mean that on the left side of outlook screen, you have icon for Mail,
Calendar, Contacts etc. That's where I can see all my contacts.

Just looked at Properties of the contacts groups in "My Contacts", went
to Outlook Address Book tab, ticked Show this folder as an email address
book and now they show up fine.

You are a legend Russ, Thank you.

Why is this necessary?

Regards
Mark


Russ Valentine;143931 Wrote:
If you could clarify this statement it would be very helpful: "have
successfully linked that backup up after reinstall of Office."
Precisely
what you did would be very important to know.
Also, I assume from your description that you are asking about the
Outlook
Address Book view. Is that correct? If so, you must enable any Contact
subfolders as electronic address book in their properties before they
will
appear in that view. Have you done that?
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Russ Valentine


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