Outlook 2000 - Problem with addresses from Contact List

scoutdad284 · 05-12-2008, 11:58 AM

I'm still using Outlook 2000 and have roughly 1000 contacts in the address book that have been loaded via direct entry, uploaded from PDA's, transferred from computer to computer, loaded during brief use of Outlook 2003, and synchronized countless times with a Dell Pocket PC. My email access uses a pop3 server for outgoing mail and an smtp server for incoming. The problem I've experienced for quite some time has to do with addressing outgoing emails.

When I click on TO, or CC, or BCC a list from my contact list appears and I can pick those I want to include. However, the list is totally incomplete. Maybe 200 contacts show up out of 1000. The ones I use most aren't there.

I have this awful feeling that something is messed up in the registry, having to do with using the same contact list, or parts of the contact list, on several different computers/devices over a period of time. Might someone have a suggestion on how to "reinitialize" and thus restore all of the contacts -- to make them available from the "pick list" when addressing emails?

Thanks for any help you might provide.

05-12-2008, 11:58 AM	#1 (permalink)
scoutdad284 Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 1 OS: XP Pro	Outlook 2000 - Problem with addresses from Contact List I'm still using Outlook 2000 and have roughly 1000 contacts in the address book that have been loaded via direct entry, uploaded from PDA's, transferred from computer to computer, loaded during brief use of Outlook 2003, and synchronized countless times with a Dell Pocket PC. My email access uses a pop3 server for outgoing mail and an smtp server for incoming. The problem I've experienced for quite some time has to do with addressing outgoing emails. When I click on TO, or CC, or BCC a list from my contact list appears and I can pick those I want to include. However, the list is totally incomplete. Maybe 200 contacts show up out of 1000. The ones I use most aren't there. I have this awful feeling that something is messed up in the registry, having to do with using the same contact list, or parts of the contact list, on several different computers/devices over a period of time. Might someone have a suggestion on how to "reinitialize" and thus restore all of the contacts -- to make them available from the "pick list" when addressing emails? Thanks for any help you might provide.