export my outlook address book BACK to outlook express?

[JVRudnick]

so...I hate outlook. it's WAY WAY too slow...and I've learned how to use OE
to import all of my emails/folders etc back okay.

but OE reported that it can't import the outlook address book...

how do I do that?

Jim

 

[Diane Poremsky]

I don't recommend using the hack if the user does not want to use outlook -
it will cause outlook to run every time OE is opened.

I don't have a Windows XP install handy to check but the Vista version of
the address book supports importing from Outlook. It can also import CSV
files - so at most you could export from Outlook to CSV and import the CSV.

 

[Gordon]

so...I hate outlook. it's WAY WAY too slow...and I've learned how to use
OE
to import all of my emails/folders etc back okay.

but OE reported that it can't import the outlook address book...

how do I do that?

Jim

Export your Outlook Contacts as a csv file and import that

 

[Brian Tillman]

If your contacts in Outlook still exists you can do following:

Go to the Windows registry and navigate to the key

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Wab\WAB4

There create a DWORD-Value name "UseOutlook". Then doubleclick the
value and type a 1 in the value-field. Restart Outlook Express and
the content of Outlook's standard contact folder should appear.

Only for Outlook 2002 or earlier. It doesn't appear to work for OL
2003/2007.

 

[Brian Tillman]

At least on my computers it works for Outlook 2003 without any
problems ;-).

Good. I was sure I tried it with OL 2003, but it was a while ago and maybe
I didn't.