Your post is not accurate. PST files from Outlook 2000 are perfectly
compatible with Outlook 2003. Read my post again. I told you what to do.
Open the file in Outlook 2003 and copy what you need from it.
I never said importing deleted your File As... field in the Contact Record.
I said it caused your problem, and it did. It was the connection between
your File As... field and the view that got toasted. There are countless
connections such as this that get disrupted when you import PST files.
Repeat after me. I will never import a PST file (even if Microsoft says it
will work).
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"XeonicXpression" wrote in message
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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] wrote:
Thought so.
Never import Outlook data unless you like this kind of problem. You had
no
need to import. You weren't trying to convert another file format.
I trust you still have a backup of your data? Open it and copy your
Contacts
from it so you won't lose data like the File As... field.

The only file I have is his inbox.pst. Since it is a 2000 version pst,
Outlook 2003 wont let me just copy his into the directory. When I did
that it said it wasn't compatible. So I guess my question is how do I
get access to the contacts without doing the import?

Also, we didn't lose any of the Contact "File as" field data when we
imported. The only problem is trying to create a new contact.

Thanks for your help,
Mark