errors with Outlook 2003

Populate TO field with contacts

[fashezee]

I had to re-install my outlook 2003; now, when I click on the TO in a new message, I dont see my contacts....The autopopulate feature only works with people you have sent to; not all contacts are loaded...

need help Thanks !

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

I did the same recently with Outlook 2007 and I think this may be the way that it works. You may have to live with it.

[cmendla]

There are a couple of things you might try

If you right click on a contact folder and go into properties, there is tab for 'address book' and an option somewhere for "show as an address book" or something like that.

This is a pain if you have a bunch of contact folders as I think you have to add each one back to the address book ( I have contacts, vendors, world leaders looking for my advice, friends, family and other such folders.) If that happened to me it would take a half hour to add each folder back. I don't thing the property is inherited for sub folders but I might be wrong.

chris

[SEOMike]

You might be able to use the instructions in this Microsoft KB article to recover your old info.

[office.microsoft.com...]

I think you're talking about the auto-complete function in Outlook which is different from contacts. A good rule of thumb is to ALWAYS make a copy of auto-complete file before upgrading / installing outlook so you don't lose the data. Lots of people rely on auto-complete for their addresses and then wonder why the info is gone. They don't realize that contacts and auto-complete are different. Also, remember you can't "merge" the old and new files so if you have new addresses in your auto-complete file and you overwrite it, they are gone.

[SEOMike]

There are also third party programs that will extract the data from the auto-complete file and turn the addresses into a CSV file. Can't think of any names now, but I've used one in the past with great success.