Lost My shared Contacts - How do I restore them?

[David Baird]

I recently upgraded my Office XP to Office 2003. When I did I lost the
linkage between the Contacts folder in Outlook and sharing and using it in
the Addressbook in Outlook Express.

I really liked the ability to operate out of one contact file instead of a
separate addressbook that yoiu have to copy back and forth.

And before people ask, why stay with Outlook Express, just do it all in
Outllook, been there, done that and got so frustrated with not being able to
see graphic files with the photos attached to the messages that I always go
back to Outlook Express so I can read mail and usegroups in the same program.
I use Outllook for mail merge with Word and Publisher, calendar and other
things, but until the netmail and graphic usage gets like what it is in OE, I
just get too frustrated... Finally OE's keeps my folders in separate dbx
files and that reduces the size of the files from being so enormous. I have
had too many Ooutlook files, even with archiving regularly get so fragmented
that they take forever to open and the chance they get corrupted is much
higher with Outlook as opposed to OE.

So, what can I do to share the contact folder again, or is this one of the
things that MS did away with?

 

[Hal Hostetler [MVP-P/I]]

Sharing contacts between Outlook 2003 and Outlook Express is not supported,
however, look here:

http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/oeshare.htm
To share Contacts between Outlook and Outlook Express

Hal
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[David Baird]

Hal, Thanks for the link, that worked great. Will the same fix work with
Outlook 2007? That is coming into our facility in the near future. I am not
the only one who uses the shared contacts here and I'd love to figure this
out before I deply to the other workstations.

David