Re: No long share address look between Outlook and Outlook express

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From: Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE (franksaunders_at_mvps.org)
Date: 05/09/04 

Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 05:16:16 -0500

<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:a5cc01c43584$49769580$a501280a@phx.gbl
> Actually, while I was using Outlook 2000 (instead of
> office XP or 2002), OE was configued to use the contact
> list (and other contact folders) of Outlook 2000.
>
> Once outlook 2000 is upgraded to Office Xp(outlook 2002),
> OE can no longer access the contact list or any of the
> subfolders in Outlook anymore. I wnat to keep sharing
> the contact list since I want to use the same address
> list for both programs.
>
> So should I open the register key file and make sure the
> DWORD value is "1" to ensure it's sharing? How do I open
> the register key?
>
> Thank you

Copied from Microsoft WindowsXP/Inside Out
Microsoft Press by Ed Bott and Carl Siechert

"Earlier versions of Address Book gave you the option of using your
Microsoft Outlook Contacts folder in Outlook Express. If you accepted this
option, Address Book became a front end to Outlook, visible in Outlook
Express and any other applications that used Address Book. Contacts added
via Outlook thus became accessible to Outlook Express, and contacts added to
Address Book by means of Outlook Express options (such as Outlook Express's
option to add the names of people you reply to via e-mail) became usable in
Outlook.

"This integration with Outlook is still available in Address Book 6 (the
version shipped with Windows XP), but only via an undocumented registry
edit. To share contact information between Outlook and Address Book, open
Registry Editor, and go to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\WAB\WAB4. Add the DWORD
value UseOutlook to this key (if it isn't already present), and set it to 1.
To return to the unintegrated state, return to this registry value and
either delete it or set it to 0.

"The tradeoff for integration between Outlook and Address Book is that it
precludes your using identities in Address Book. If you are using Outlook
integration and you display the Folders And Groups pane in Address Book, you
see the subfolders of your Outlook Contacts folder instead of your shared
contacts and personal contacts." 

-- 
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
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