You mean your Contacts folder?
Is it enabled as an Outlook Address Book?
Right click on your Contacts folder- Properties- tab Outlook Address Book

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"Karen" wrote in message
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Trying to use my Outlook 2007 (Vista) contact list as my Word 2007 Address
Book for merging. The file is currently under my Personal Folders/Address
Book but Word is not picking it up to load. Should it be somewhere else
in
my folder list?