Outlook's "Address Book" is a virtual view of the Contacts folder. Any contact you add to your contacts folder that includes an electronic address (email or fax) will automatically populate the Address book since the AB pulls it information from the Contacts folder.

If this is not what you are looking for, please explain in more detail what is lacking.

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After furious head scratching, Lady Dungeness asked:

| Ugh. I had a bad feeling ... but I had to go there. Ughly.
|
| So what I want is this:
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| Use Contacts as my main place for names and phones and addresses etc.
|
| Have a separate, stand-alone "Address Book" that is a duplicate of the
| Contacts, and that can be automatically updated from within Outlook.
| I'd rather not have to do the exportimport routine, if possible.
|
| Question: Can I get what I want?
|
| Lady D
|
|
| "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
| ...
|| You don't even want to ask Microsoft has so overused and abused
|| the term "address book" that no one can figure out quite what it is.
|| The answer is, "it depends."
|| Here's an overview of all of them. You'll see what I mean:
|| http://home.indy.rr.com/russval/addressbook.htm
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|| Russ Valentine
|| [MVP-Outlook]
|| "Lady Dungeness" wrote in
|| message ...
||| I've been reading the postings, learning much. I use Outlook 2002.
||| What is
||| the difference between Address Book and Contacts? Would Address
||| Book be available to me outside of Outlook? Could it be updated
||| from within Outlook? (Like the OE WAB can be a stand-alone).
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||| Lady Dungeness
||| Crabby, but Great Legs!