Thank you, Bruce. However, I'm not sure that that will fix her problem.

Basically, she had an old Address Book (call it A) with many addresses in
folders. Her new Address Book (call it B) has all the same individual
addresses in it, with some additions and modifications, but no folders. She
wants to have all the addresses in B allocated to the folders in A. It
would be very difficult to manually recreate the folders from B in A,
because she does not have any other record of which addresses were put in
which folders. You have suggested an import from A to B -- this would not
add any new addresses, because B is more up-to-date than A, and I'm not sure
whether it would add the folders that exist in A.

If we do it the other way around (ie, import B into A), the folders are
already in B and I assume that new addresses would be added. However, would
addresses that have been modified in B be updated in A when the import from
B is done?

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Lindsay Graham

"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
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Open the new Address Book. File | Import | Address Book (wab) and point to
the old one. The import will add all the addresses from the old AB and
leave the addresses already there alone.
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"Lindsay Graham" wrote in message
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My colleague's computer blew up recently and the local computer shop
rebuilt her hard drive and reinstalled all programs. She uses OE6 and
her problem is that her new Address Book seems to have all the addresses
(she has several thousand) that were there previously, but the folders in
which she had the addresses previously have disappeared.

I searched her hard drive and found the original Address Book with the
folders. However, she has now added and updated etc many addresses in
her new Address Book. How can she combine both Address Books, so that
the end result is an Address Book with all the old folders and all the
new addresses?

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

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Lindsay Graham
Canberra, Australia