Address book etc
 

Can someone enlighten me, or give me a link, to explain the difference
between an address book (which I don't seem to have) contacts, and the
auto-completion function for addresses in Outlook 2003? My ultimate aim is
to make a distribution list. Is it possible to make one from names in the
auto-completion list?

Address book etc
 

Outllook uses Contacts
The Contacts can be 'viewed' as an address book, which is what you usually
see when you click 'To' on a new mail
The auto-complete is a seperate file (nk2) that stores / caches previously
used entered addressess, the file is not viewable / editable but can be
moved to a new installation.


"Walt G" wrote in message
...
Can someone enlighten me, or give me a link, to explain the difference
between an address book (which I don't seem to have) contacts, and the
auto-completion function for addresses in Outlook 2003? My ultimate aim is
to make a distribution list. Is it possible to make one from names in the
auto-completion list?

Address book etc
 

Thanks for your reply.

When I click on the 'To' box in a new email, which is supposed to contain a
list of names, it is instead completely blank. Yet I do have contacts.
Apparently it is not showing up as an address book. What is going on?

"DL" address@invalid wrote in message
...
Outllook uses Contacts
The Contacts can be 'viewed' as an address book, which is what you usually
see when you click 'To' on a new mail
The auto-complete is a seperate file (nk2) that stores / caches previously
used entered addressess, the file is not viewable / editable but can be
moved to a new installation.


"Walt G" wrote in message
...
Can someone enlighten me, or give me a link, to explain the difference
between an address book (which I don't seem to have) contacts, and the
auto-completion function for addresses in Outlook 2003? My ultimate aim
is to make a distribution list. Is it possible to make one from names in
the auto-completion list?

Address book etc
 

See properties of Contacts, tick show as an email address book

"Walt G" wrote in message
...
Thanks for your reply.

When I click on the 'To' box in a new email, which is supposed to contain
a list of names, it is instead completely blank. Yet I do have contacts.
Apparently it is not showing up as an address book. What is going on?

"DL" address@invalid wrote in message
...
Outllook uses Contacts
The Contacts can be 'viewed' as an address book, which is what you
usually see when you click 'To' on a new mail
The auto-complete is a seperate file (nk2) that stores / caches
previously used entered addressess, the file is not viewable / editable
but can be moved to a new installation.


"Walt G" wrote in message
...
Can someone enlighten me, or give me a link, to explain the difference
between an address book (which I don't seem to have) contacts, and the
auto-completion function for addresses in Outlook 2003? My ultimate aim
is to make a distribution list. Is it possible to make one from names in
the auto-completion list?

Address book etc
 

Sorry to but in ... I have the same problem.

I was delighted to find that you had the answer. I rushed over to Outlook,
clicked up the Contacts properties (there are two of them ... "Contacts" and
"Contacts in Personal Folders".

Anyway, I right-click "Contacts", select "Properties", go through each tab
until I find "show as an email address book" on the General tab ... and ...
well, mine is all grayed out.

What now? This beast has been haunting me for days.

"DL" address@invalid wrote in message
...
See properties of Contacts, tick show as an email address book

"Walt G" wrote in message
...
Thanks for your reply.

When I click on the 'To' box in a new email, which is supposed to contain
a list of names, it is instead completely blank. Yet I do have contacts.
Apparently it is not showing up as an address book. What is going on?

"DL" address@invalid wrote in message
...
Outllook uses Contacts
The Contacts can be 'viewed' as an address book, which is what you
usually see when you click 'To' on a new mail
The auto-complete is a seperate file (nk2) that stores / caches
previously used entered addressess, the file is not viewable / editable
but can be moved to a new installation.


"Walt G" wrote in message
...
Can someone enlighten me, or give me a link, to explain the difference
between an address book (which I don't seem to have) contacts, and the
auto-completion function for addresses in Outlook 2003? My ultimate aim
is to make a distribution list. Is it possible to make one from names
in the auto-completion list?

Address book etc
 

I found my own answer. Your suggestion got me to the magic phrase:
"show this folder as an email address book".

So I googled on that and I got this:
http://www.sequimschools.wednet.edu/...vailabl e.htm

It tells exactly how to fix this problem. But I got there only because of
your original clue.

Thanks.

"Alfred Einstein" wrote in message
...
Sorry to but in ... I have the same problem.

I was delighted to find that you had the answer. I rushed over to Outlook,
clicked up the Contacts properties (there are two of them ... "Contacts"
and "Contacts in Personal Folders".

Anyway, I right-click "Contacts", select "Properties", go through each tab
until I find "show as an email address book" on the General tab ... and
... well, mine is all grayed out.

What now? This beast has been haunting me for days.

"DL" address@invalid wrote in message
...
See properties of Contacts, tick show as an email address book

"Walt G" wrote in message
...
Thanks for your reply.

When I click on the 'To' box in a new email, which is supposed to
contain a list of names, it is instead completely blank. Yet I do have
contacts. Apparently it is not showing up as an address book. What is
going on?

"DL" address@invalid wrote in message
...
Outllook uses Contacts
The Contacts can be 'viewed' as an address book, which is what you
usually see when you click 'To' on a new mail
The auto-complete is a seperate file (nk2) that stores / caches
previously used entered addressess, the file is not viewable / editable
but can be moved to a new installation.


"Walt G" wrote in message
...
Can someone enlighten me, or give me a link, to explain the difference
between an address book (which I don't seem to have) contacts, and the
auto-completion function for addresses in Outlook 2003? My ultimate
aim is to make a distribution list. Is it possible to make one from
names in the auto-completion list?