Accessing Contacts for the Rules Wizard

Russ - I am sorted, thank you. The link to the Miscrosoft pages on
configuring the Outlook Address book enabled me to connect the Address Book
to the correct contacts folder. Thanks for your assistance. Mightily
relieved.

PS - is it ever possible to get rid of the 'original' personal folders which
the installation of Outlook creates, and which - if you are bringing over an
existing Personal Folders file - you never use? The Microsoft help pages
seem to assume you cannot.
--
David Q


"Russ Valentine" wrote:

It is always bad practice to rename a PST file unless you have fully
disconnected it from an Outlook profile. There is never any reason to rename
a PST file.
How did you configure your new Outlook profile to use your old file? Not
sure what you mean by "I told it to look..."
You cannot rename a default folder. If you were able to rename your Contacts
Folder that means you had not successfully set your old PST file as your
default.
Instructions on configuring the Outlook Address Book are he
http://support.microsoft.com/default...Product=ol2002
--
Russ Valentine
"David Q" wrote in message
...
Thanks Russ and Gordon.

Russ - let me try and remember exactly what I did. I re-named the Outlook
file Outlook2 on the old machine, and then I copied it into the Outlook
folder on the new machine.

Then when I opened the new Outlook on the new machine, I told it to look
to
Outlook2 to send its email to (which it has done). It picked up the
Personal
Folders, and the calendar, and contacts, notes and tasks etc.

In the folder list, I then renamed the (empty) personal folders which the
activation of Outlook created as "original ignore" and the ones I had
imported as just Personal Folders. So my folder list as "original
ignore"
and the standard list of empoty sub-folders, and the Archiove Folders, and
the (new) Personal Folders.

I didnt do anything to congifure the Outlook Address Book - perhaps that
is
hte problem. What do I have to do to tell the Outlook Address Book that
my
new Contacts folder is the one to look for?
--
David Q


"Russ Valentine" wrote:

You haven't "successfully" transferred your data. State what you did
instead. State how you configured the Outlook Address Book after you
transferred your data.
You never rename a PST file.

--
Russ Valentine
"David Q" wrote in message
...
I have just successfully transferred Outlook 2002 files to a new PC with
Oulook 2007, and my emails, contacts, calendars etc have all come over
OK.
I
do have the spurious Personal Folders created when Outlook 2007 was
first
set
up, and cannot get rid of it, but that's not the problem. I have
renamed
it
something else, and the Personal Folders I have transferred remain
named
as
such. I have ensured that arriving emails come into the correct
Outlloko
.pst file and thus into the correct Personal Folders.

My problem is this: I am trying to set up rules for the diversion of
arriving emails into folders other than Inbox, and want to use the
feature
where you specify who they are from. For this, the Rules Wizard looks
into
the Address Book and Contacts. Currently, when I do this, it is blank.
I
cannot seem to get the Rules Wiazard to find my address book or
contacts.
I
have put test entries into the 'original' Personaol Folders (now
renamed,
see
above), in case the Rules Wizard is looking in there, but it isnt. How
do
I
get the Rules Wizard to look into the correct Address Book and
Contacts?
--
David Q

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Gordon - I am now sorted, thanks. Russ gave me a link to the Microsoft
pages dealing specifically with connecting the Address Book to the specific
contacts folder you want it to look at. It is what I suspected I needed.
--
David Q


"Gordon" wrote:


"David Q" wrote in message
...
Just to add a further 'wrinkle' to this: I find I cannot access my
Address
Book and Contacts when clicking on 'To' when compiling an email. Even
though
everything is there in the Folders list on the left hand side.

The clue is in your first post: Quote "I
do have the spurious Personal Folders created when Outlook 2007 was first
set
up, and cannot get rid of it" Unquote.

I am assuming that against all advice you would have found if you'd
researched first, that you imported your pst?

The import of a pst is well known to corrupt all sorts of things.

Create a new mail profile by going to Control Panel-Mail-Show Profiles-Add
(with Outlook closed), create a new profile and attach the current pst file
to it.

FYI in futu
How to backup and restore Outlook

http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm
http://www.slipstick.com/config/backup.htm
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...771141033.aspx

There is out-dated information on some of these pages, specifically with
regard to Outlook 2003 and 2007.

The main points to note:
1. Do NOT use the import/export function to move Outlook data from one
version to another - all you need to do is to copy the pst file, with
Outlook closed.

2. Do NOT paste the copied pst file into the default location - paste into
(for example) your Documents folder and then do File-Open-Outlook Data File
within Outlook.



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"David Q" wrote in message
...
Gordon - I am now sorted, thanks. Russ gave me a link to the Microsoft
pages dealing specifically with connecting the Address Book to the
specific
contacts folder you want it to look at. It is what I suspected I needed.

Glad you got it working.

Once you have set a different PST file as your default, you can simply R
click and close the other.
--
Russ Valentine
"David Q" wrote in message
...
Russ - I am sorted, thank you. The link to the Miscrosoft pages on
configuring the Outlook Address book enabled me to connect the Address
Book
to the correct contacts folder. Thanks for your assistance. Mightily
relieved.

PS - is it ever possible to get rid of the 'original' personal folders
which
the installation of Outlook creates, and which - if you are bringing over
an
existing Personal Folders file - you never use? The Microsoft help pages
seem to assume you cannot.
--
David Q


"Russ Valentine" wrote:

It is always bad practice to rename a PST file unless you have fully
disconnected it from an Outlook profile. There is never any reason to
rename
a PST file.
How did you configure your new Outlook profile to use your old file? Not
sure what you mean by "I told it to look..."
You cannot rename a default folder. If you were able to rename your
Contacts
Folder that means you had not successfully set your old PST file as your
default.
Instructions on configuring the Outlook Address Book are he
http://support.microsoft.com/default...Product=ol2002
--
Russ Valentine
"David Q" wrote in message
...
Thanks Russ and Gordon.

Russ - let me try and remember exactly what I did. I re-named the
Outlook
file Outlook2 on the old machine, and then I copied it into the Outlook
folder on the new machine.

Then when I opened the new Outlook on the new machine, I told it to
look
to
Outlook2 to send its email to (which it has done). It picked up the
Personal
Folders, and the calendar, and contacts, notes and tasks etc.

In the folder list, I then renamed the (empty) personal folders which
the
activation of Outlook created as "original ignore" and the ones I had
imported as just Personal Folders. So my folder list as "original
ignore"
and the standard list of empoty sub-folders, and the Archiove Folders,
and
the (new) Personal Folders.

I didnt do anything to congifure the Outlook Address Book - perhaps
that
is
hte problem. What do I have to do to tell the Outlook Address Book
that
my
new Contacts folder is the one to look for?
--
David Q


"Russ Valentine" wrote:

You haven't "successfully" transferred your data. State what you did
instead. State how you configured the Outlook Address Book after you
transferred your data.
You never rename a PST file.

--
Russ Valentine
"David Q" wrote in message
...
I have just successfully transferred Outlook 2002 files to a new PC
with
Oulook 2007, and my emails, contacts, calendars etc have all come
over
OK.
I
do have the spurious Personal Folders created when Outlook 2007 was
first
set
up, and cannot get rid of it, but that's not the problem. I have
renamed
it
something else, and the Personal Folders I have transferred remain
named
as
such. I have ensured that arriving emails come into the correct
Outlloko
.pst file and thus into the correct Personal Folders.

My problem is this: I am trying to set up rules for the diversion
of
arriving emails into folders other than Inbox, and want to use the
feature
where you specify who they are from. For this, the Rules Wizard
looks
into
the Address Book and Contacts. Currently, when I do this, it is
blank.
I
cannot seem to get the Rules Wiazard to find my address book or
contacts.
I
have put test entries into the 'original' Personaol Folders (now
renamed,
see
above), in case the Rules Wizard is looking in there, but it isnt.
How
do
I
get the Rules Wizard to look into the correct Address Book and
Contacts?
--
David Q

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