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September 16th, 2008, 02:30 PM
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Address book losses
I upgraded from Office 2000 to Office XP yesterday. When I did, I lost much
of my Address book. My Outlook 2000 address book had several groupings (? maybe not the right term) of email addresses. The distribution lists and non-grouped addresses came over, but none of my groups came over, and that is where the addresses I used most frequently were kept. Is there any way to retrieve them? Thanks. 
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September 16th, 2008, 06:16 PM
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Address book losses
Probably not. From your description, it sounds like you were using Outlook
2000 in the horrid Internet Mail Only mode, which shares address book functionality with Outlook Express, making it possible for people to create a type of "group" that isn't supported in later Outlook versions. The only "groups" that will work in Outlook 2002 are those distribution lists in your Contacts folder. Just a wild shot -- maybe some of that lost information was actually in Outlook Express not Outlook. Wouldn't hurt to look. If it's not there, you should be able to find the addresses in old email messages and create new contacts from those addresses. -- Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming: Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54 "BillS" wrote: I upgraded from Office 2000 to Office XP yesterday. When I did, I lost much of my Address book. My Outlook 2000 address book had several groupings (? maybe not the right term) of email addresses. The distribution lists and non-grouped addresses came over, but none of my groups came over, and that is where the addresses I used most frequently were kept. Is there any way to retrieve them? Thanks.
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September 16th, 2008, 07:21 PM
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Thanks. I haven't used Outlook Express for years. It's unfortunate there was
not some warning at some point, as I had an extensive address book and made much use of the obsolete 'groups.' Thanks again for the info. "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Probably not. From your description, it sounds like you were using Outlook 2000 in the horrid Internet Mail Only mode, which shares address book functionality with Outlook Express, making it possible for people to create a type of "group" that isn't supported in later Outlook versions. The only "groups" that will work in Outlook 2002 are those distribution lists in your Contacts folder. Just a wild shot -- maybe some of that lost information was actually in Outlook Express not Outlook. Wouldn't hurt to look. If it's not there, you should be able to find the addresses in old email messages and create new contacts from those addresses. -- Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming: Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54 "BillS" wrote: I upgraded from Office 2000 to Office XP yesterday. When I did, I lost much of my Address book. My Outlook 2000 address book had several groupings (? maybe not the right term) of email addresses. The distribution lists and non-grouped addresses came over, but none of my groups came over, and that is where the addresses I used most frequently were kept. Is there any way to retrieve them? Thanks.
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September 18th, 2008, 05:18 PM
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Address book losses
Is this still true? I use OL2003 in IMAP/SMTP mode.
Thanks, Paul "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Lots of users got stung by Microsoft's sleight of hand with IMO mode. Microsoft never documented or warned users that they were actually using Outlook Express rather than Outlook for many functions, so many users lost data when they migrated to later versions. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "BillS" wrote in message ... Thanks. I haven't used Outlook Express for years. It's unfortunate there was not some warning at some point, as I had an extensive address book and made much use of the obsolete 'groups.' Thanks again for the info. "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Probably not. From your description, it sounds like you were using Outlook 2000 in the horrid Internet Mail Only mode, which shares address book functionality with Outlook Express, making it possible for people to create a type of "group" that isn't supported in later Outlook versions. The only "groups" that will work in Outlook 2002 are those distribution lists in your Contacts folder. Just a wild shot -- maybe some of that lost information was actually in Outlook Express not Outlook. Wouldn't hurt to look. If it's not there, you should be able to find the addresses in old email messages and create new contacts from those addresses. -- Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming: Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54 "BillS" wrote: I upgraded from Office 2000 to Office XP yesterday. When I did, I lost much of my Address book. My Outlook 2000 address book had several groupings (? maybe not the right term) of email addresses. The distribution lists and non-grouped addresses came over, but none of my groups came over, and that is where the addresses I used most frequently were kept. Is there any way to retrieve them? Thanks.
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