Wait. You confused me. The view I asked for has no check box. You said it
does. You didn't mean that, did you?
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"dale1948" wrote in message
...
Hi Russ,

I've been out of town.

OK, the window shows the selected Outlook Address Book as
"Contacts:Personal
Folders". The text above this says that in the properties dialog box to
check
the box "Show this folder as the e-mail address book". The box has a check
mark, but it is not "active".

Dale

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Go to Tools Account Settings Address Book Tab Outlook Address Book

Change...
What do you see?
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"dale1948" wrote in message
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Russ,

Ok, I tried your suggestion. I only have 1 address book; "Contacts".
This
is
the one that had been selected; as always.

When I type a name into select names window that opens when I click on
"To"
in e-mail, no list of contacts appeares but, I can type a name in,
click
the
search button and one name will appear.

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

No. I'm saying open the Address Book from your toolbar. In that view
you
will have the option to choose which Contacts Folder you want to
display
first.

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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"dale1948" wrote in message
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Hi Russ,

You helped me on a similar problem a couple of months ago on the PC
in
my
office. In fact I looked your reply up to see if I could use to fix
my
home
PC.

I'm not sure I completely understand your response. When you say
open
address book, do you mean my Outlook contacts personal folder?

One other thing I looked at prior to asking for help was to right
click
on
the contacts folder properties. This opened a window called contact
properties. By clicking on the Outlook Address Book tab, I can see
that
"Contacts" has been selected as the folder for my e-mail address
book.
Although there is a check mark in the box, the entire line is not
"active",
in other words, I can't uncheck, or check the box.

Again everthing has worked fine for over a year then yesterday, it
went
south.

Dale

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

It is easy to select which folder the address book view should
display
first
by opening the address book Tools Options

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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"dale1948" wrote in message
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I having been using this application for over 1 year, without
problem.
As
of
today, when composing a new e-mail, and clicking on "To", my
outlook
address
book does not open. Instead, I get a window that says "Select
Names:Contacts". In the past, my entire contacts listing opened
up
and
I
could click on the intended recipients. I've made no changes to
any
settings
of which I'm aware.

How can I change to the way it was?

Thanks!

Dale