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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. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Nhmiller" wrote in message ... Instructions have already been posted. You corrupted your Outlook Address Book Service. Never rename your default Contacts Folder. I didn't, because that cannot be done. Select Contacts, then File - Folders. The rename option is grayed. Remove and re-add the Outlook Address Book Service. You should only have one instance "Contacts Personal Folders" in the Outlook Address Book. I have done the removal and add several times in my experimenting by checking and unchecking the Show this folder as an e-mail address book box. But the only way for the Outlook Address Book to show up in the Print Fax sequence is to check the Show this folder as an e-mail address book box and accept Contacts as the name, or use another name (like Fax Contacts). That process creates the second entry that shows up in the Outlook Address Book as a second Contacts Personal Folders. Neil Cat Paintings At Carol Wilson Gallery http://www.carolwilsongallery.com |
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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 Cat Paintings At Carol Wilson Gallery http://www.carolwilsongallery.com |
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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 Cat Paintings At Carol Wilson Gallery http://www.carolwilsongallery.com |
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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. No, they are not true duplicates, as they only come up twice in the Print to Fax Address Book, as you go through the Fax Wizard from any writing application. I see now that if I create a new contact in Outlook and enter only a fax number, that contact only comes up once in the Print to Fax Address Book, but will come up twice if I entered an e-mail address for that contact in Outlook. So, although I think the fax wizard should be programmed otherwise, we'll have to live with that until Microsoft fixes it. Although I bet you have a workaround for this: I could create another address book in Outlook that has only the Fax number entered. I assume you use your computer to send faxes because you are the expert on this newsgroup. Do you have a separate Address Book, like I did earlier, called Fax Contacts, or a separate new Folder, so you can select that in the fax wizard and not have duplicate listings? Neil Cat Paintings At Carol Wilson Gallery http://www.carolwilsongallery.com |
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You can move all your Fax recipients to a separate Contacts Subfolder,
enable that subfolder as an email address book, then configure the Outlook Address Book to display that folder first. When you do, you should be taken straight to that folder whenever you open the Outlook Address Book (which is what you're opening when you open the Address Book from the Fax Wizard). Remember, the Contacts can contain only Fax numbers in that folder since all electronic addresses will be displayed. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Nhmiller" wrote in message ... 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. No, they are not true duplicates, as they only come up twice in the Print to Fax Address Book, as you go through the Fax Wizard from any writing application. I see now that if I create a new contact in Outlook and enter only a fax number, that contact only comes up once in the Print to Fax Address Book, but will come up twice if I entered an e-mail address for that contact in Outlook. So, although I think the fax wizard should be programmed otherwise, we'll have to live with that until Microsoft fixes it. Although I bet you have a workaround for this: I could create another address book in Outlook that has only the Fax number entered. I assume you use your computer to send faxes because you are the expert on this newsgroup. Do you have a separate Address Book, like I did earlier, called Fax Contacts, or a separate new Folder, so you can select that in the fax wizard and not have duplicate listings? Neil Cat Paintings At Carol Wilson Gallery http://www.carolwilsongallery.com |
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