Look at the other formats to which Outlook can export (File Import and
Export...) and decide which is the best for you. Then export your Contacts
Folder to that file type.
Do not consider this a reliable backup of your Contacts, however, and do not
try to restore your Contacts from it. To backup up your Contacts, backup
your PST file.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Lady Dungeness" wrote in message
...
I want to keep a second file which is automatically updated,
containing all my contacts. I want the second file to be accessible
to people who don't use Outlook. It could be an Excel file, or some
kind of stand-alone address book; it could be in FileMaker Pro
database; etc. In short, I don't want my contacts to be dependent
upon just one application. And I don't want recovery of the contacts,
in the event of a crash, to also reveal the contents of emails and
such that are also stored in *.pst.

Thank you.



Lady Dungeness
Crabby, but Great Legs!



On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 01:38:53 -0700, "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
wrote:

|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.
|
|--?
|Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
|
|Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|reading.
|
|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:
||
|| 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
|||
||| --
||| 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).
||||
|||| --
|||| Lady Dungeness
|||| Crabby, but Great Legs!