If you have Contacts in the Contacts folder but they are not accessible when
you click on the To button, check these settings:

Make sure the Contact folder is enabled as an email address book. Right
click the Contacts folder, choose Properties then Outlook Address Book. Is
the box to enable as email address book is checked?

If this is grayed out...

Go to Tools | Email Accounts, choose View or change existing directories or
address book. Is the Outlook Address Book present? If it isn't listed, add
it and close and restart Outlook. If it is listed, then remove it and close
then restart Outlook and repeat these steps to add it.

If you are using Outlook 2007 and the the checkbox is grayed, you'll need to
make a new profile as you can't add the Outlook Address Book service due to
a bug.

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"Mark Knowles" wrote in message
...
My Contacts appear to be intact and modifyable from the contacts icon, but
are not accesible or selectable from the To: row of an email. When I try
to
Add or change an address book from the Tools/email accounts/directory pull
down, I do not have a Name-"Outlook Address Book" Type-"MAPI", I have an
empty window under Directories and Address Books. When I try to select
"Add"
, "Additional Address Books", I receive the following error, "The account
you
have added is not fully configured. It might not work properly until
re-configured correctly.