This was 100% end user error, not Outlook error.
There is always a simple way to restore Contacts you inadvertently delete:
Restore from backup. If you do not backup data, you'll get to do this all
over some day.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Daryl Rose" wrote in message
...
Well, I figured out a work around. I remembered that I have some of my
contacts on my laptop. Severally out of date, but most are there. I
dumped
them to an SD card and moved them over to the desktop. Outlook updated
what
needed to be updated, so I have most of my contacts back the way they
should
be. However, I'm still not happy with the way this occured with no way to
recover just the contacts. This doesn't make me very happy with the way
Outlook handles contacts.

Thanks for all of the help.

Daryl Rose