Personal address book in Outlook 2000

[tessavance]

We are still using the Personal Address Book in Outlook
2000, but need to export it as a text file for another
program. I understand that to do that we will need to
import the Personal Address Book into Contacts. Is that
the only way, and will that destroy our Personal Address
Book?

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Hard to say. PAB's have been deprecated and have not been in general use for
at least 6 years, so I'm not sure anyone can even still check for you.
Importing the PAB into Contacts will not destroy the PAB. It may be a good
time to do so anyway, since the Outlook Address Book has replaced the PAB
and it's not certain how long backwards compatibility with PAB's well be
retained.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You can use it as the data source for a mail merge in Word, using the
catalog format to generate a comma- or tab-delimited file.

 

[tessavance]

But Contacts is hideously bloated when all we need are
the email addresses that we use frequently.

-----Original Message-----
Hard to say. PAB's have been deprecated and have not been in general use for
at least 6 years, so I'm not sure anyone can even still check for you.
Importing the PAB into Contacts will not destroy the PAB. It may be a good
time to do so anyway, since the Outlook Address Book has replaced the PAB
and it's not certain how long backwards compatibility with PAB's well be
retained.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

We are still using the Personal Address Book in Outlook
2000, but need to export it as a text file for another
program. I understand that to do that we will need to
import the Personal Address Book into Contacts. Is that
the only way, and will that destroy our Personal Address
Book?

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