Outlook Express Address Book disappeared after installing Office

[gwoodall]

After installing MS Office 2003 Professional Edition, all of the entries in
my Outlook Express Address Book disappeared! How do I get them back? I am
using Windows XP Home Edition.

 

[DL]

The niether OE or its Address book has any relationship with Office. Nor
does office use an address book

 

[gwoodall]

I know Outlook Express is not a part of Office, however, all of my OE Address
Book entries somehow were exported into Outlook Contacts list and I no longer
have any entries in my OE Address Book! I would like to get my entries back
into my OE Address Book!

 

[DL]

That cannot happen, whilst you can export to an Exchange address book or a
scv file, you would have to implicitly Import your addresses in OL
You might be better off posting to an IE NG or looking here
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/

 

[gwoodall]

All I can say is this: After installing Office 2003 Professional Edition my
Address Book in OE was cleaned out! Also, the Outlook that was installed
DOES have an Address Book AND a Contacts List! And, the Contacts list looks
suspiciously like the entries that were in my OE Address Book - go figure!
Anyway, after much exploration, I was able to export the Contacts List back
into my OE Address Book. Thanks for your help anyway.

 

[DL]

The OL address book is merely a view of the Contacts list

 

[slscks]

I'm having the same problem after installing office 2007. how did you export
the contacts back the OE??

 

[DL]

Outlook has a Contacts folder, which can be configured to *view* as an
address book. I doesnt have an address book as such.
Within OL export the contacts list in a format that OE can import
PS If you are going to continue using OE, why install Outlook? you didnt
have to.