Indeed. Answer is posted here daily.
You can not Windows Easy Transfer with Outlook. It creates a corrupt profile
in which the Outlook Address Book Service is absent and cannot be added.
Create a new Outlook profile from scratch and connect it to your current
Outlook data file. You will then be able to designate your Contacts Folder
as an email address book.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Ron" wrote in message
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i know that y'all have probably answered this question countless times but
i'm new here and in need of guidance. I purchased a new computer and
transferred my conacts to my new Vista computer (from XP) using the Vista
utility and a transfer cable. i'm using office 2007 (upgraded from 2003,
upgraded from 2000, etc. etc.).

the contacts were working fine before the transfer but now i don't see
them when composing new e-mail and pressing To: or CC: . the addressbook
shows up in my accounts, but when i check the contact folder options the
"show this folder in the addressbook" option is grayed out, and my
addressbook is empty. i no longer have my old PC so going back is not an
option; the contacts only exist on my new PC and my Pocket PC. i looked
through the MS knowledgebase and read that a conversion may be required,
but couldn't find any remedy that worked. where do i go from here? is
there a way to export my contacts to a file; delete them in outlook and
import them back in correctly? is there a conversion utility?