Outlook 2007 Address Book

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Go to Tools Account Settings Address Book Tab Outlook Address Book
Change...
What do you see?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"dale1948" wrote in message
...
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.

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

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

"dale1948" wrote:

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

Can anyone tell me if you can add a command button to add a contact from an
email to the address book. I tried the help menu ( bit of a misnomer) but it
does show what the button might look like. I understand that Outlook doesn't
save automatically the address of someone you reply to. Supposedly you can
highlight an address in an open message and then click on this button. But I
cannot find it.
Any help would be wondeful.
Thanks J

"dale1948" wrote:

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

"job" wrote in message
...

Can anyone tell me if you can add a command button to add a contact from
an
email to the address book. I tried the help menu ( bit of a misnomer) but
it
does show what the button might look like. I understand that Outlook
doesn't
save automatically the address of someone you reply to. Supposedly you can
highlight an address in an open message and then click on this button. But
I
cannot find it.

If the address is in a recipient or sender field, right-click and choose Add
to Contacts. If the address is in the body of the message, you can click it
to open a new message addressed to that address, press Ctrl-K to resolve the
address, then right-click it and choose Add to Contacts. If there are
conditions other than these, explain them and we may be able to suggest
something else.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]