I need to format my laptop which has Vista and Office Professional 2003 and I
would like to verity how to copy my contacts and know how to copy them back
before I have formatted. I have done this before many years ago and ended up
with 3 or 4 contacts list and I dont want to do that again.

I located the .pst file in
C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\ and have copied it onto a
CD since I will be formatting.

Once I format (this I am not entirely sure I am correct)
Put a copy of the .pst file from the CD in the same location as above. I am
assuming it will ask me if I want to override and say yes.

I saw Russ post this to someone else and I am assuming this is done once I
copy the .pst file as stated above?

To use a PST file from an earlier installation and set it to be the default
for your current installation of Outlook:
- Go to Tools Options Mail Setup Data Files Add...
- Add the PST you'd like as your new default, then Close OK to exit the
Options dialog
- Go to Tools E-mail Accounts View or change existing e-mail accounts
- Select the PST you just added in the "Deliver New e-mail to the following
location" dropdown (it will most likely appear just below the current
default Personal Folders file) Finish
- Exit and Restart Outlook
- You can now close the previous default PST (R-click on that pst folder
while in Folder View and select "Close foldername Folders"). If you have
any information in your former PST that you'd like to transfer to your new
default PST, you can drag and drop from one to the other before you close
the old one.