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