You're right; I should have said .pab
This is what I did:
Exporting Outlook contacts
Note The following scenario assumes that you have Outlook Express and
Outlook installed on the same computer. If you want to export Outlook
contacts from one computer for use with Outlook Express on another
computer,
see the "Troubleshoot importing contacts" section.
Add the Personal Address Book to Outlook if it isn't already there.
How?
In Outlook, on the Tools menu, click E-mail Accounts.
Select Add a new directory or address book, and then click Next.
Select Additional Address Books, and then click Next.
Select Personal Address Book, and then click Next.
Note If you receive the message This account or directory already exists
and cannot be specified twice, click OK, click Cancel, and then skip to
step
2.
In the Name box, type a name that is easy for you to associate with the
Personal Address Book. For example, you can call it Exported Outlook
Contacts.
Under Show names by, select Last name (Smith, John), and then click OK.
This will file your contacts in the same way that Outlook displays
contacts
by default.
Quit and restart Outlook.
Do one of the following:
If all of the contacts you want to export are in a Personal Address Book
In Outlook Express, on the File menu, point to Import, and then click
Other
Address Book.
If any of the contacts you want to export are in an Outlook Contacts
folder
On the Tools menu, click Address Book.
In the Address Book dialog box, on the Tools menu, click Options.
Under Keep personal addresses in, select Personal Address Book or the name
you provided for the Personal Address Book in step 1, for example,
Exported
Outlook Contacts.
Click OK.
In the Address Book dialog box, under Show Names from the, under Outlook
Address Book, select Contacts.
Select the contact you want to add to the Personal Address Book.
Note You can select multiple entries by pressing and holding CTRL while
clicking, or select the entire list by clicking the first entry, pressing
and
holding SHIFT, and then clicking the last entry.
Right-click the selected entries, and then click Add to Contacts.
The selected contacts will be copied to the Personal Address Book file.
Note If you changed the Keep personal addresses in setting in step 3,
repeat steps 2 through 4 to return it to the previous setting, such as
Contacts.
In Outlook Express, on the File menu, point to Import, and then click
Other
Address Book.
Select Microsoft Exchange Personal Address Book, and then click Import.
If prompted, select the Outlook profile to use, and then click OK.
If Outlook Express finds a duplicate entry, you are prompted to choose
whether to replace your existing Outlook Express contact with the
information
exported from Outlook.
When the address book import process has completed, click OK.
Russ Valentine said:
Impossible. There are no such instructions because Outlook does not use
and
cannot export to a WAB file. Only Outlook Express can export to and use a
WAB file. Try again to tell us accurately what you are doing and clarify
what you need to do.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Using the official Microsoft Website help page method: Saving the
contacts
in
a .wab file from Outlook and then importing that into Express. Is there
another way?
:
I'm trying to get my Outlook 2003 contacts into my iPod. But I need
to
transfer them to Outlook Express first, (because Outlook is on
another
computer). It works, but doesn't transfer the phone numbers, only
the
names
and e mail addresses. Does anyone know a fix?
And how are you doing this "transfer"?
