Brian, you were right, something happened in the two transfers, first from my
old machine with Outlook Express on XP to my new machine with Vista (ugh) and
Windows Mail (also ugh) and then from Win Mail to Outlook. So after I got
back from having the dermatologist cut a bad spot out of my arm yesterday I
went back to Outlook Express and got a clean copy of the address book and it
displays just fine.

Now I am working on getting the rest of Outlook tuned to my preferrences. I
am so old that I miss having a manual so I may go buy one.

Thanks for the help.

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

Greybeard wrote:

No Brian, it works for new entries. They show the actual E-mail
address.

Most of my entries come from the contact list I exported from Windows
Mail that came with this machine.

How did you do this exporting and why would you? Outlook is perfectly
capable of importing contacts directly from WIndows Mail with little or no
loss of information.

Personally, I'd empty the contacts folder and transfer them again correctly.
The problem may be how you transferred them from OE to Windows Mail or from
Windows Mail to Outlook, but there isn't enough detail in the thread to
decide, considering this seems to be the first time you mentioned "import"
at all. Importing always adds "flavor" to a problem.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]