No, detect and repair basically goes through your installation and fixes/replaces/removes unneeded or corrupt files to restore it to functionality.
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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
reading.
After furious head scratching, KARIN asked:
| Worked -- thanks! I KNOW I've done this before. Does the "detect &
| repair" reset things like this?
|
|| Right click each of the additional contacts folders and on their
|| properties page, select the option to show as an Outlook Address
|| Book.
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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
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, KARIN asked:
||
||| Thanks, Milly -- this worked -- however, now the folders of my other
||| Contacts (such as for a club or company I work for) are not
||| accessible when composing a message. They still show up as folders
||| under Contacts in the left-hand folder list. And, names are not
||| recognized when I type them in.
|||
|||| Remove and reinstall your Outlook Address Book service. Control
|||| Panel->Mail Icon->Email Accounts->Directories->View or Change.
|||| Remove the OAB service, back up and add it again (all done with
|||| Outlook closed of course.)
||||
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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 reading.
||||
|||| After furious head scratching, KARIN asked:
||||
||||| Making progress. "Found" all my custom Contact folders and they
||||| work fine, however "Contacts" does not. When I start a new
||||| message I get this error message: "Address list could not be
||||| displayed. Contacts folder associated with this address list
||||| could not be opened; it may have been moved or deleted or you do
||||| not have permissions."
|||||
||||| Thanks for your help!
|||||
|||||| I upgraded to Office XP (my Outlook.pst folder is on my D drive
|||||| -- I was able to successfully have Outlook use that file).
|||||| Initially, my Contacts were all there (I have an eye witness I
|||||| wasn't dreaming). Now, they are gone. Tasks are all there. I am
|||||| hoping they are in a folder not being found by Outlook (I can't
|||||| stand the thought that I might have lost them). Help will be most
|||||| appreciated! Thanks! --
|||||| KARIN
