Did you try a select all in that Friends then past all in the Contacts?
Remember I didn't dive into backup and restore of OL2007. That's on the web.
Hi,
I reinstalled Outlook 2007 and imported contacts from the .pst file. The contacts imported into a "Friends" folder instead of the "Contacts" folder as seen below:
My Contacts
Contacts
Friends
Cannot automatically get to my contacts when typing the first few characters. Please advise.
Thanks
Joe

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