Outlook Address Book Help

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Remove Fax Numbers As A Valid Email Choice

First off if you plan on using Outlook to send faxes then don't follow these instructions. Doing so will cause problems with your ability to send faxes from Outlook.

The easiest way to prevent fax numbers from showing up when you try to resolve an email address from your address book is to preface the number with a letter like "F:" or "Fax:". Doing this will prevent the fax number from s howing up in the Outlook Address Book.

Alternatively you could store the fax number in a field other than the default fax field but that is just asking for trouble.

Convert Personal Address Book into Contacts Folder

The Personal Address Book has a .pab file extension and its default location is drive:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook.

  1. On the File menu, click Import and Export.
  2. Under Choose an action to perform, click Import from another program or file, and then click Next.
  3. Under Select file type to import from, click Personal Address Book, and then click Next.
  4. Under Select destination folder, click Contacts or a sub folder under Contacts.
  5. Click Finish.

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