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Old April 27th, 2007, 09:34 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]
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Default Outlook 2007 address books unavailable

Of course. Only you should never import a PST file. When you create your new
profile, it will create a new, empty PST file as its default. All you need
to do is open your old PST file in Outlook (File Open Outlook data
file...), set it to be the default, then restart Outlook and close new empty
PST file.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"deekramer" wrote in message
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Thank you for this posting! I have been trying for a month to figure out
why
after getting my new machine with Vista & MS Office 2007 then migrating my
datafiles/setting from old machineto new one that the Outlook Address Book
was grayed out and I could not link my contacts to my address book. A
support
person at Microsoft said I did not move my csv file and that was why I
could
not get my address book to work even through I could see the contacts in
my
contact list. It did not make sense to me so I started web research on
this
issue and finally cam on your answer. My question is if I delete the
current
profile and add a new one to make the Outlook Address Book visible, can I
still use the same information from the old profile for the new one and
import my old pst file?

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Yeah. We were thrilled to discover that one.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Brian Tillman" wrote in message
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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] wrote:

There's a bug in Outlook 2007. You can no longer remove the Outlook
Address Book service and re-add it to repair the service. All you can
do is create a new profile.

I haven't explicitly tried that in my copy of OL 2007. What a bummer.
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Brian Tillman