[JStergis]

I'm stumped on this one!

When I go to compose a new message, either forwarding, replying, or a straight compose, I can't simply click contacts, I have to search for them in order to add them to TO, CC, or BCC. It's very annoying. I could always do this in Thunderbird, but haven't figured it out in Outlook. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Joe

[DaveA]

Have you tries selecting the buttons that these item are listed on?

[JStergis]

Yes, when I click To, Cc, or Bcc, I get the dialogue box in post 1.

[Zack Barresse]

Do you have the contacts in your address book? It looks like you're looking at your own address book (top left drop down box). Make sure you're looking in the right spot for them. If this is not your default address book, you can change it to make that display first.

[JStergis]

Thanks for the reply,

I can add contacts fine, so I'm assuming that would rule out being in the wrong address book. The problem is that I have to search for them, which is very annoying. I'd like it to display a list when I click "To, CC, or BCC" so that I can click names to add them without searching for them. It's very annoying to try to remember all the people I want to send something to without having a list to look through.

[Zack Barresse]

So, the list is blank, then you put something in the search box, press Enter, and then a list appears? Without changing the address book you're looking at??

[DaveA]

Your Outlook is setup to use a "Address Book" not the "Contacts", so when you are adding one it goes to your Address and NOT the Contacts.

This happened because way back when you converted from Outlook Express to Outlook what ever, your "Address Book" was selected to be used and not the built in Contacts.

The following link my help in explaining what I have been try to explain.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ou...132421033.aspx

[JStergis]

Originally Posted by Zack Barresse

So, the list is blank, then you put something in the search box, press Enter, and then a list appears? Without changing the address book you're looking at??

Yes, when I put something into the search box, say "Bob" it shows up all of the people named Bob or any e-mail addresses with "Bob" in them.


DaveA, from my limited success in researching this, I found out something like what you're saying. I imported all my contacts from a csv list.

When I click contacts in the outlook window, I see them all, as shown in the attachment. Any ideas how I would go about converting them to contacts instead of an address book?

[DaveA]

Try http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ou...725211033.aspx

[JStergis]

Unfortunately, it seems that the link does not apply to Office 2007. I searched through everything and couldn't find a PAB file (to convert from address book to contacts, per instructions), and sure enough, I found this phrase on MS's Outlook 07 page:

Personal Address Books (.pab) (Personal Address Book: A customizable address book used to store personal e-mail addresses you use frequently. However, Contacts offers more advanced features for this function. Personal Address Book files have a .pab extension and can be copied to disk.) can no longer be created or used in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007.

This is definitely a strange problem.

[JStergis]

Got It!!

You have to click "Name Only" Instead of "More Columns"
It then shows all of them!
I feel stupid for not trying that before, now.


Thanks everyone, marking solved.

[Zack Barresse]

Thanks for posting the solution!