Convert your Personal Outlook Address Book to a Outlook Contacts folder

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In Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, you can no longer create new Personal Address Books (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.). However, you can import old Personal Address Books and convert them to Outlook Contacts, which can be displayed in the Outlook Address Book (Address Book: The collection of address books that you can use to store names, e-mail addresses, fax numbers, and distribution lists. The Address Book may contain a Global Address List, an Outlook Address Book, and a Personal Address Book.).
Outlook Contacts provide flexibility and customization that are not available in the Personal Address Book. For example, you can associate birthdays, several types of phone numbers, anniversaries, Web site addresses, and other custom information with your contacts.
Step to Convert a Personal Address Book into a Contacts folder
1. On the File menu, click Import and Export.
2. Under choose an action to perform, click Import from another program or file, and then click Next.
3. Under Select file type to import from, click Personal Address Book, and then click Next.
4. Under File to import, browse to the folder where the .pab is located, click it, and then click OK.
5. Under Options, choose how you want to handle duplicate contacts.
For more information about resolving duplicate contacts, see Resolve or delete duplicate contacts.
6. Click Next.
7. Under Select destination folder, click Contacts or a subfolder under Contacts.
8. Click Finish.

2 comments:

Alex said...

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TClovis said...

how to recovery address book catalog, in address book collector e-mail.
This e-mail's not appear in 'Contacts', but when send e-mail, by MS outlook 2007, the e-mail address appear.
Thanks any suggestion, Clovis