Why does Mail not use the Contacts in Outlook as a source of email addresses?

What "Mail?"

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After furious head scratching, R4010S asked:

| Why does Mail not use the Contacts in Outlook as a source of email
| addresses?

Thanks for getting back to me.
I have just updated from Outlook 2000 to Outlook 2007 (when changing to a
new computer).
In Outlook 2000 I had one list of Contacts with sub-directories that
serviced the address requirements of emails sent from Outlook 2000.
In Outlook 2007 I can't get the email system to look at the Contacts at all.
I have had to create a separate Address Book for emails!
Is that a better explantion?
Do you know how to "share" the Contacts with the email system in Outlook 2007?
Robert

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

What "Mail?"

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
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After furious head scratching, R4010S asked:

| Why does Mail not use the Contacts in Outlook as a source of email
| addresses?

Okay, you mean on a new mail message. Gotcha.

Sounds like you don't have the Outlook Address Book Service correctly installed. Remove and reinstall it, closing Outlook between removal and reinstallation.

As for the sub-contacts folders, right click each one and on the properties tab, enable each as an Outlook Address Book.

How did you create an Address Book? They are simply virtual views of your Contacts folder(s) and have no separate existence.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
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After furious head scratching, R4010S asked:

| Thanks for getting back to me.
| I have just updated from Outlook 2000 to Outlook 2007 (when changing
| to a
| new computer).
| In Outlook 2000 I had one list of Contacts with sub-directories that
| serviced the address requirements of emails sent from Outlook 2000.
| In Outlook 2007 I can't get the email system to look at the Contacts
| at all. I have had to create a separate Address Book for emails!
| Is that a better explantion?
| Do you know how to "share" the Contacts with the email system in
| Outlook 2007? Robert
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| What "Mail?"
||
|| --�
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, R4010S asked:
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||| Why does Mail not use the Contacts in Outlook as a source of email
||| addresses?