"d.deane(nospam)@comcast.net"
<ddeanenospamcomcastnet@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:63F9AAB3-56F7-428D-B609-B7CED2BCF477@microsoft.com
> Jim: I'm actually replying to a message you sent Alan Zengel
> 10/13/2005 re: Printing a group within Address Book, but I can't find
> that thread that I first found last night 12/4.
>
> You wrote:
> "Creat a new wab file (Start/Run and type: WAB /new ) and give it a
> name and location to save to. Open your existing WAB file in Outlook
> Express, click on the Group you wish to print only, selecting all
> members Ctrl+A, followed by Ctrl+C to copy them to the clipboard.
> Close the WAB and OE. Double click your empty, new WAB file and in
> the Contacts area, click, then press Ctrl+V to copy them from the
> clipboard to the new WAB file. You will have to hit the Enter key to
> approve each entry but it beats typing them all in. "
>
> I have created the new WAB file, and can copy individual contacts in
> the main contact list from the current WAB file to the new one OK,
> but have not succeeded in copying group-only contacts from the
> current file to the clipboard and then pasting the clipboard info to
> the new WAB file. When click on the group and follow the specified
> procedure, nothing happens. Same if I double click on the group to
> show each entry, select all entries with mouse & CTRL, then hit
> CTRL+C in the current WAB and then CTRL+V in the new WAB.
>
> Maybe relatedly, I can't get the clipboard to clear with the ESC key.
> Contacts copied into the clipboard stay there (as tested by copying
> into a Word file.)
>
> Diagnosis and suggestions? Thanks,
>
>
> "Jim Pickering" wrote:
>
>> Do you also have outlook installed on the same computer? If so, open
>> Outlook and use its menu to Export your contacts as a CSV (Text)
>> file. Once you've done that and know where you saved the CSV file
>> to, you can open Outlook Express and use its menu to import
>> (File/Import/Other Address Book (Text).
>> --
>> Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
>> https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
>> Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be
>> helped. Thanks.
>>
>>
>> "Elizabeth Stuart" <Elizabeth Stuart@discussions.microsoft.com>
>> wrote in message
>> news:5CEE05C6-6E67-4A04-B619-9DA3812A27D7@microsoft.com...
>>> Is there a way to import the MS Outlook contact list or address
>>> book into Outlook Express so that I do not have to key in all the
>>> data?

Open the Address Book.
In the left column click on the Group.
In the right field click on a contact.
Press Ctrl-A to Select All.
Press Ctrl-C to Copy All.
Open the blank Address Book.
Click in the Contact Pane in the new Address Book.
Press Ctrl-V to Paste All.

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