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Address Book Dilemma

Nov 26, 2010 6:51AM PST

This is very frustrating. Why is the address book not in Windows 7?
When I send an email from outlook and click the "To" or "CC" button beside send NO contact names appear. This is specially frustrating when you want to "BCC" someone.
Is there ANYTHING I can do to remedy this?

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Re: address book
Nov 26, 2010 6:57AM PST

It's even worse than you say: there's no email program in Windows 7. You have to download and install one yourself if you don't have a web-based mail account (like hotmail or gmail or yahoo)! From your post, I understand you use MS Outlook.

All email programs I know come with an empty address book that you have to fill yourself. The way to do that, of course, depends on the program you use. Look in the help of Outlook (you didn't tell the version: 2003, 2007, 2010?) how to fill the contact information.

Kees

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Just checking.
Nov 26, 2010 6:58AM PST

Do you remember all the chatter about governments mandating apps being removed from the Windows OS? They succeeded!

All you need to do is decide what app you want to use for this feature. There are a lot of choices and many are free.
Bob

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Hi Bob.
Nov 26, 2010 7:00AM PST

Initially I thought the same as you did. But on a second look I discovered 'outlook' in her post. So I had to rewrite part of what I was about to post.

It seems you fell into the same trap.

Kees

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Yes I fell for it.
Nov 26, 2010 8:00AM PST

And even then I could say it's the same problem. Why would any "OS" contain an address book? That sounds like something an app would provide, not the OS.

At some point my bets were on Microsoft pulling a stunt such as bundling the Windows OS complete with Office. Imagine what trouble that would cause!
Bob

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It's called Contacts in Win 7
Nov 27, 2010 9:22PM PST

and is found at C:\Users\{your-username}\Contacts

To find yours click the Start bubble button. In the Search box, type Windows Contacts, and then, in the list of results, click Windows Contacts.

That will most likely open a blank Windows Explorer page. You would have to then 'Import' your old Address Book details from wherever they were before.

If you goto the Start bubble > Help and type in How to open Contacts there will be much more you can see about how Contacts works.

Mark

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If you want to use your address book
Nov 28, 2010 11:49AM PST

to complete the TO or CC or BCC in an email then you need to transfer the contents of your old email contacts folder to your new system. To do that you must first export the contacts from your old email service to a CSV file, transfer the file to your new system then import the contents to the contacts folder of outlook on your new system.
Once you have the CSV file, open outlook, select contacts to open the folder, on the file menu choose Import and follow the directions.
If you are using outlook 2010, on the file menu select Open first then Import and follow the directions.