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Technology Help Guide

Personal Address Book vs. Outlook Contacts

Users that are upgraded to Office 2000 or XP will need to change the location of their Personal Address Book, if they had previously developed a Personal Address Book in Exchange (Inbox icon).  The new location of this data should be Outlook Contacts.

The advantages of using Outlook Contacts are:

• Contacts are fully integrated within Outlook, unlike separate PAB files.
• PAB files are too easily lost, or the link to them broken.
• Information within Contacts can travel with you from workstation to workstation, to home (via Outlook Web Access), or can be synchronized in a digital organizer.

To Convert your Personal Address Book to Outlook Contacts

1. Open Outlook and highlight the contact folder.
2. On the File menu, click Import and Export. 
3. In the Choose an action to perform list, click Import from another program or file, and then click Next. 
4. In the Select file type to import from list, click Personal Address Book, and then click Next. 
5. In the Select destination folder list, click Contacts, and then click Next. 
6. Follow the rest of the steps in the wizard. 

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