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by r_upchurch

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How do I copy my boss' personal address book to a disk so he can put it on another computer. He is transfering to another geographical location within the company, and will have a different computer provided to him. We're running Outlook 97. A collegue mentioned exporting to contacts, then import to the new computer. Not sure of that, any help and/or procedures will be sincerely appreciated.

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by dmiles

First identify the PAB file your email profile uses,then copy to second computer.
To identify the PAB file
Start Outlook
Choose Services from the tools menu,to open services dialogue box
Select Personal Address book on the Services tab,then click properties to open
note path of your PAB file
Click OK twice to close all dialogue boxesExit and Log Off from the file menu
To copy to second computer
Close all mail programs
In Windows Explorer,locate and copy to disk and then to the second compputer the PAB file from path location
To configure second computer to use PAB file
Start Outlook
Choose Services from the tools menu
Select Personal Address Book on the service tab and click remove,if there is not a Personal Address book (SKIPthis step)
Click Add on the Services tab to open the Add Service to profile box
Select Personal Adress Book
Type the path to PAB files,click ok
exit and log off
Restart Outlook

by terminator

From outlook, go to file/import and export and select export, and just follow the instructions on the screen, click on help if you have any probs but you will end up saving his personal address book to a .pab file than you can put onto floopy and then go to the other PC and click on file/import and just follow the steps...

Do read help on Outlook 97, it is quite good

Good luck

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