Nice place you all have here ... I found it through a Google search.

To my problem --

I have just bought a used Lenovo ThinkPad SL300 running on XP Pro.

It is an office/work unit that was briefly assigned to a guy who later decided he wanted a Mac. He had the Lenovo about a month and turned it in. After that it sat on the shelf in an equipment closet for nearly a year. I'm leaving the company and found out it was there and made them an offer on it. The hardware is decent and the deal included a full set of MS Office 2003 which made for a sweet deal. However, I have a MS Office Pro 2003 Outlook issue to resolve. That issue showed up when I transferred my Contacts (pst file format) from my home computer to the laptop.

Here are the hardware notes as helpful.

- Home desktop: Vista Home Premium based PC with MS Office Professional 2003 installed (everything works fine).

- Laptop: Lenovo ThinkPad: XP Pro (SP3) with MS Office 2003 installed.

From the home desktop I used File/Export/Personal Folder File (pst) to export my Contacts and Calendar data and then did a typical copy of those two files onto a flash drive to move them to the laptop.

The Calendar info Imported into Outlook on the laptop with no problems.

After I imported my contacts I looked and they show up when I click on Contacts.

However, when I click New to draft a new email and then click TO to choose a recipient, the selection window opens and is empty -- not a contact to be seen.

No contacts - where are the contacts?

I figured it would be a file location issue so I started chasing down the Contacts Folder properties. When I open folder properties and click the tab for Outlook Address Book the check box and folder name are grayed out. IOW, I can't choose the Contacts in the folder for email purposes. (Photo appears below).



Any insight into this will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Rick

When you click the TO field, and the selection window opens, is there a drop down box that shows Global Address Book, Contacts, etc..? Have you tried any of the other selections in that drop down box?

Well I am not sure.

What I did was a get around. I installed iTunes and then synced my Contacts to the laptop. That put the contacts on the unit, but I'll have to look at the drop downs the next time I have it fired up.

Via edit -- okay, here's what I get.