How to kill off the Outlook Address Book

"Misapprehended?" Your question remains patently unclear. The To: button
invokes the Outlook Address Book, which is and always has been the only
portal to the electronic addresses contained within your Contacts Folder.
Seems to suffice for everyone else. Explain why it does not for you. You can
easily set the address book view to open to your Contacts Folder using the
instruction I posted.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
wrote in message
...
I think you need to re-read my posts. I have dutifully double-check
my work to ensure I am following the instructions to the letter. I
believe you have misapprehended what I am hoping to accomplish. At
this point, I'm afraid we're at a standstill. It looks like I cannot
bring up the Contacts folder when I click the TO icon in New Email. I
shall have to suffer along with bringing up the address book instead.

Lady Dungeness
Crabby, but Great Legs!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 14:41:13 -0400, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]"
wrote:

|Re read my post. I answered all these questions. To repeat:
|1. Configure the Outlook Address Book as I directed you.
|2. Only then will you be able to open the address book view and select
which
|folder to show first.

Not easy.
Your instructions say to find another post with instructions, which
takes me to a KB article telling how to enable oab service, which I
did; then to right-click properties show this folder as address
book, which I did;

I ASKED HOW TO CHANGE what the TO icon invokes. I don't like the
goddam friggin oab with its teeny little list that partially shows
names and cannot be configured to show which address of several. I
don't give a RAT'S A$$ if it's "good enough for everybody else."

And as for invoking Contacts folder instead of address book, when it's
impossible, you say, to invoke Contacts instead of address book ...
well, that's a conundrum, wouldn't you agree?

I bet you tell your kids "just because everybody else is doing it
doesn't mean you should ... if everybody else jumped off a cliff,
would you do that too?"

And BTW, instructions and explanations that work for ONE person do not
necessarily work for another, chiefly because DIFFERENT PEOPLE HAVE
DIFFERENT LEARNING STYLES, or did you miss out on that someplace?


Lady Dungeness
Crabby, but Great Legs!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 20:51:05 -0400, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]"
wrote:

|"Misapprehended?" Your question remains patently unclear. The To: button
|invokes the Outlook Address Book, which is and always has been the only
|portal to the electronic addresses contained within your Contacts Folder.
|Seems to suffice for everyone else. Explain why it does not for you. You can
|easily set the address book view to open to your Contacts Folder using the
|instruction I posted.

Oh, very clever aren't we, with all the power and the plonker too.

Try re-reading your ever-so-clear instructions:

Then just follow the many posts here that tell you how to configure
the
Outlook Address Book. Once you do that, it is simple to configure the
address book view to show your Contacts Folder by default in Tools
Options
"Show this Address list first"

http://support.microsoft.com/default...Product=ol2002

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
wrote in message
...
Brian, When I click the TO icon -- I get a blank Address Book. I
don't want Address book at all. I want the Contacts to open.

I did right-click on my Contacts folder Outlook Address Book ...
the option to "Show this folder as an email address book" is grayed
out.


Lady Dungeness
Crabby, but Great Legs!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~



On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:06:02 -0400, "Brian Tillman"
wrote:

wrote:
|
| What I want is to click on the TO icon and bring up the Contacts, not
| the "Address Book." It used to bring up Contacts. Something changed
| it.
|
|What do you see now? Is the contacts folder you want to see there marked
as
|an address book? (Click each contacts folder, choose Properties, select
the
|Outlook Address Book tab, and examine the box labeled "Show this folder
as
|an e-mail Address Book".)
|--
|Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

I SAID, I DON'T GIVE A RAT'S A$$ WHAT EVERYBODY ELSE THINKS.

Psssssssssssssssssssssssst: You missed one. ;-)

I DON'T GIVE A

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Good advice. "Just find another post."
PS: As I've said before, I CANNOT FIND Tools Options Show this
Address list First
And your second piece of advice? "Reread the first piece of advice."

BTW, what follows is the first piece of advice. Clear as mud. And
the KB article doesn't help because my OAB is already configured like
that.



On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 08:18:30 -0400, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]"
wrote:

|Then just follow the many posts here that tell you how to configure the
|Outlook Address Book. Once you do that, it is simple to configure the
|address book view to show your Contacts Folder by default in Tools Options
| "Show this Address list first"
|
|http://support.microsoft.com/default...Product=ol2002

Thank you, Gordon, for the clear answer. I guess I can't have what I
would like. Oh well. :-)


Lady Dungeness
Crabby, but Great Legs!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 18:38:34 +0100, "Gordon"
wrote:

wrote in message
.. .
| 1. I cannot find Tools Options Show this Address List
| First
|
| 2. I DO see my contacts; I can open my Contacts, select a
| contact and write an email to that contact.
|
| 3. I CANNOT use Control+N to create a new email message,
| then click TO and have my Contacts folder open.
| Instead, when I click TO, the dialog box is titled "Select
| Names" and it presents a list of names on the left, with three boxes
| on the right--one for TO, one for CC, and one for BC.
| It's the "Select Names" dialog box that I find annoying. I
| would much rather have the Contacts folder open up when I click TO in
| a blank email message.
| I thought the Contacts folder used to open up when I clicked
| TO in a new email message. Is my memory failing me?
|
|Probably - every version of Outlook since 2002 (AFAIR) has the "select
|names" dialog box when you click the "To" button...
|

I also posted a link to the instructions you need to follow. You appear to
need more help than a newsgroup can provide.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
wrote in message
...
Not easy.
Your instructions say to find another post with instructions, which
takes me to a KB article telling how to enable oab service, which I
did; then to right-click properties show this folder as address
book, which I did;

I ASKED HOW TO CHANGE what the TO icon invokes. I don't like the
goddam friggin oab with its teeny little list that partially shows
names and cannot be configured to show which address of several. I
don't give a RAT'S A$$ if it's "good enough for everybody else."

And as for invoking Contacts folder instead of address book, when it's
impossible, you say, to invoke Contacts instead of address book ...
well, that's a conundrum, wouldn't you agree?

I bet you tell your kids "just because everybody else is doing it
doesn't mean you should ... if everybody else jumped off a cliff,
would you do that too?"

And BTW, instructions and explanations that work for ONE person do not
necessarily work for another, chiefly because DIFFERENT PEOPLE HAVE
DIFFERENT LEARNING STYLES, or did you miss out on that someplace?


Lady Dungeness
Crabby, but Great Legs!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 20:51:05 -0400, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]"
wrote:

|"Misapprehended?" Your question remains patently unclear. The To: button
|invokes the Outlook Address Book, which is and always has been the only
|portal to the electronic addresses contained within your Contacts Folder.
|Seems to suffice for everyone else. Explain why it does not for you. You
can
|easily set the address book view to open to your Contacts Folder using
the
|instruction I posted.

Thank you, Brian. Your advice is always clear. I've verified that my
settings are as you described. It still brings up the address book
from the TO icon. Apparently there's no other option for brining up
the Contacts folder from the TO icon instead.


Lady Dungeness
Crabby, but Great Legs!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:06:02 -0400, "Brian Tillman"
wrote:

wrote:
|
| What I want is to click on the TO icon and bring up the Contacts, not
| the "Address Book." It used to bring up Contacts. Something changed
| it.
|
|What do you see now? Is the contacts folder you want to see there marked as
|an address book? (Click each contacts folder, choose Properties, select the
|Outlook Address Book tab, and examine the box labeled "Show this folder as
|an e-mail Address Book".)