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? re: Address Book in OE

Sep 4, 2004 12:15PM PDT

Gateway Select 400 PC; Windows 98SE; 160 MB RAM; IE6 SP2

I'm not sure if I am in the right forum for this question -- if not, please direct me to the proper place if you would.

I was wanting to use my Outlook Express (OE) address book for my Christmas Card list this year. So, I did a find file for *.wab and came up with 2 listings. One said address book and location is shown as C:\ The other listing was Gateway Client and location is C:\WINDOWS\ApplicationData\Microsoft\Address Book.

I updated the .wab file by adding people?s addresses and phone #?s and even added people who do not have email addys ---- in order that I could print out a nice clean card list. It worked beautifully and I now have the list I was hoping to come up with.

However, I thought that the *.wab file was the ?address book? that appears when I am in OE and view that address book; but evidently it is not. When viewing the addy book in OE, none of those changes appear. However, when I open the Gateway Client file, all my changes appear.

Now, I would like to remove the address book .wab file from my PC, leaving the Gateway Client one in tact. Will it affect anything on my PC if I remove the address book .wab file?

Perhaps I should leave both on PC ? they aren?t very big files anyway. I would appreciate your comments please.

Thank you.


Julea

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Re: ? re: Address Book in OE
Sep 5, 2004 10:42AM PDT

Open OE.

Click Address Book.

Click Help, Contents and Index.

Click the Index tab.

Type print in the search field.

Click Print Address Book information.

Read.

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But you didn't answer my question?
Sep 6, 2004 1:18AM PDT

Hi Coryphaeus -- long time no see. I still need my question answered -----

"Now, I would like to remove the address book .wab file from my PC, leaving the Gateway Client one in tact. Will it affect anything on my PC if I remove the address book .wab file?"

I didn't realize that you could have 2 addy books.


I had already done what you suggested in your post. Maybe I should just experiment and see what happens re: the 2 address books that I have.

Indeed when I do as you suggested, I get a copy of the Gateway Client address book. To get a copy of the other one, I have to manually open that file and print.


Thanks anyway.

Julea

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Re: But you didn't answer my question?
Sep 6, 2004 8:30AM PDT

Hey Julea,

I thought you just wanted to print the list. I'm not familiar with (I've never heard of the Gateway thing) anything other than the .wab. Have you tried to export it?

I'm thinking the Gateway is may be a duplicate of the .wab fle. What is the Gateway Client? Is it email? Is it a browser?

Wayne

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Re: But you didn't answer my question?
Sep 6, 2004 4:15PM PDT

These files are shown as addressbook.wab and GatewayClient.wab. When I do a find file *.wab, these 2 files come up.

The addressbook.wab is the one I redid. It now has different information in it than the GatewayClient one. It's found in c:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Microsoft\Address Book\Gateway Client.wab. This addy book is the one that OE uses. How I know that is because when I'm in OE and call up the address book, this one comes up ----- not the addressbook.wab file.

My PC is a Gateway, so the client has something to do with that ---- I guess I'm the client (hehehehe).

The addressbook.wab (which I thought was the one that OE used) is the one I basically redid.

As far as importing, I have not done that --- I don't know where I would import or export it. I basically wanted to take the file I just typed everybody in and put on a floppy. But I didn't know if I had to leave that file on hard drive for OE.

As mentioned in other post, I didn't know that there were 2 address books.

I notice this forum isn't too busy. Should I go to Windows 98 or another forum and post this ?

Thanks - Julea

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Sorry to take so long. . .
Sep 9, 2004 1:32AM PDT

Try this. Open OE. Click on the Address book button. Click File, Export, Address book. Choose a destination, a floppy maybe. Now right click and choose Open with. Choose Address book. Choose the contacts you want to print. Click on one of them, then press shift and highlight all of them. Click print.

It works on mine, it prints all of my contacts, about ten on a page.