"Sheena" wrote in message
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My hard drive had to be replaced and I backed up outlook. But unfortunately
I lost all my address book contacts.

I have found them under contacts, but there seems to be no way to transfer
them to my address book.

Can anyone help? I don't like the idea of having to manually add 243
address to my address book. Surely there must be a faster way?

Outlook's "address book is just a view of your Contacts. It doesn't contain
any data on its own. Right-click Contacts, choose Properties, select the
Outlook Address Book tab. Examine the "Show this folder as an e-mail Address
Book". If you can check it, do so, then restart Outlook. If you can't, you
need to create a new maikl profile because the one you have is damaged because
of how you transferred your data.
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]