Personal address book in Outlook 2000

We are still using the Personal Address Book in Outlook
2000, but need to export it as a text file for another
program. I understand that to do that we will need to
import the Personal Address Book into Contacts. Is that
the only way, and will that destroy our Personal Address
Book?

Hard to say. PAB's have been deprecated and have not been in general use for
at least 6 years, so I'm not sure anyone can even still check for you.
Importing the PAB into Contacts will not destroy the PAB. It may be a good
time to do so anyway, since the Outlook Address Book has replaced the PAB
and it's not certain how long backwards compatibility with PAB's well be
retained.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"tessavance" wrote in message
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We are still using the Personal Address Book in Outlook
2000, but need to export it as a text file for another
program. I understand that to do that we will need to
import the Personal Address Book into Contacts. Is that
the only way, and will that destroy our Personal Address
Book?

You can use it as the data source for a mail merge in Word, using the
catalog format to generate a comma- or tab-delimited file.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx


"tessavance" wrote in message
...
We are still using the Personal Address Book in Outlook
2000, but need to export it as a text file for another
program. I understand that to do that we will need to
import the Personal Address Book into Contacts. Is that
the only way, and will that destroy our Personal Address
Book?

But Contacts is hideously bloated when all we need are
the email addresses that we use frequently.


-----Original Message-----
Hard to say. PAB's have been deprecated and have not
been in general use for
at least 6 years, so I'm not sure anyone can even still
check for you.
Importing the PAB into Contacts will not destroy the
PAB. It may be a good
time to do so anyway, since the Outlook Address Book has
replaced the PAB
and it's not certain how long backwards compatibility
with PAB's well be
retained.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"tessavance" wrote
in message
...
We are still using the Personal Address Book in Outlook
2000, but need to export it as a text file for another
program. I understand that to do that we will need to
import the Personal Address Book into Contacts. Is
that
the only way, and will that destroy our Personal
Address
Book?



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