1. Export your current Address Book as a TXT (CSV) file via Address Book
File Export Other Address Book ....

2. Examine the formatting of the CSV you just exported then format the CSV
exported from OL to conform to it. (MS Excel would be a handy application
to use for this.)

3. Despite the above, importing the correctly formatted CSV file from OL
might still make a mess of your current Address Book. Consider creating a
Standalone Address Book and importing the OL data into it instead. See
http://www.insideoe.com/files/wab.htm#wabexe and note the restrictions when
using a Standalone to compose/send a message.

If/when you need to update the Standalone, delete the current one, create a
new one and then import the new data into it.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
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Wally wrote:
For several years now I am sharing my Outlook 2002 contacts with O.E.6 by
setting UseOutlook to 1 (recipe from insideoe.tomsterdam).
Beginning last year I'm using a second PC on which I only have O.E.6 and I
started to gradually build up the address book, because I do not know of a
better system. This job is far from complete.
A week or so ago I noticed in this newsgroup a posting dealing with the
same
problem, and the given solution was: Unshare, export the contacts to a
CSV
file and then import the file into the O.E.address book. The person
involved
was successful in doing so, but I am not!
Importing works but the resulting addressbook is a mess! I suppose I do
not
know how to "assign fields".
Someone can help me please ?
Wally