Address Book Mystery

[Bill Adams]

I use Outlook as my e-mail client. My wife uses Outlook Express
on the same computer. When a change is made in either address book,
the change also shows up in the other address book. In other words.
both Outlook and OE are using the same address book, which is
unacceptable. Can anyone suggest a fix? Or can anyone recommend
some other e-mail program that I could use to replace Outlook?
Thanks

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

No one can answer until you post your Outlook version and mail support mode.
There are 7 versions of Outlook out there. Each behaves differently.

 

[Bill Adams]

Outlook version is 2000 SR-1; OE is Ver 6
I don't know what mail support mode means.
I'm running Windows XP.
If OE saves to a .dbx file and Outlook to a .pst
file, how can the same data show up in both address books?
Thanks

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Mail support mode is in line 2 of Help | About in Outlook.
If yours says "Internet Mail Only" then most likely you have set OE to use
the Outlook Contacts Folder as its data source rather than its own data
source (the WAB, not a dbx file).
Look in Tools > Options in the Address Book in OE and see if you enabled
sharing.