Contacts help! Unable to display folder

[hm chou]

I don't know what happened. The Contacts folder will not display names and
the menus revert to very basic (File: print; exit) settings. Here's what I
was doing.

I was looking at the contacts in catalog view (File; View; Current View; By
Catalog) to find the "private" column (some of my contacts are private and I
want to switch it off; easiest way? find and group them). But when I dragged
the Private column to the the window the Contacts folder went blank. Now it
says "Unable to display the folder".

I don't know how to get it back. I tried the Detect and repair, but it
didn't find anything. I figure it might have something to do with the
registry, but am not quite sure. I have a WinXP machine with Outlook 2000.

 

[Nikki]

You may want to try using the "...\CleanViews" switch to
open Outlook and reset your views to the original setup.

The link below will give you the instructions on how to use it.

OL2000: Additional Command-Line Switches
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;197180&

--
Nikki Peterson [MVP - Outlook]

I don't know what happened. The Contacts folder will not display names and
the menus revert to very basic (File: print; exit) settings. Here's what I
was doing.

I was looking at the contacts in catalog view (File; View; Current View; By
Catalog) to find the "private" column (some of my contacts are private and I
want to switch it off; easiest way? find and group them). But when I dragged
the Private column to the the window the Contacts folder went blank. Now it
says "Unable to display the folder".

I don't know how to get it back. I tried the Detect and repair, but it
didn't find anything. I figure it might have something to do with the
registry, but am not quite sure. I have a WinXP machine with Outlook 2000.