Andrew,

I appreciate your well researched answer to this question. However, in
Vista 32, Fax and Scan will immediately read my address book. But in Vista
64, it will not. exporting, I have 12 Contact folders with almost 10,000
entries, is really not an option. This is a driver issue with Vista 64 and
it should be resolved.

"Andrew McLaren" wrote:
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> "chunnel" <chunnel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote ...[color=green]
> > free Tech support. The problem is that Mail and Vista Contacts will not
> > see
> > my Outlook Contacts, so when I wish to fax using Windows Fax and Scan, I
> > have
> > to cut and past the number from Outlook instead of it just being there and
> > in
> > all the right Contact folders. Since I am out of my free service time
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> Hi Chunnel,
>
> For complicated historical and legal reasons, Outlook (the Office
> application) does not use the same Contacts folder as Windows itself.
> Whereas, Windows Mail and Fax both use the built-in Windows Contacts folder,
> not the one installed as part of Outlook.
>
> To synchronise the two, you need to export the contact information from
> Outlook, for example to a CSV (comma-separated values) file. Then import
> that CSV fiel into Windows Contacts.
>
> In Outlook, oprn your Contacts section. Then go to the File menu, Import and
> Export, and choose Export to a file. Click Next. Choose file type - CSV
> Winodws is probably the best/easiest type of file. Click Next again. Your
> Outlook Contacts folder will be already selected. Click next and save teh
> file in some convenient location, such as your Desktop. Click Finish. It
> will take a few seconds to run, and a new *.CSV file will appear on your
> desktop.
>
> Now, go to Start menu in Windows, Acessories, Contacts. Your Windows
> Contacts will appear. From teh Toolbar, click Import. The "Import to Windows
> Contacts" dialogue will appear. Select CSV in teh list of file types, and
> click Import. Browse to te CSV file you created on your Desktop. You will be
> presented with a mappings dialogue, where you can adjust the Outlook fields
> to teh Windows Contacts fields. Usually, nothing needs to be changed here.
> Then click OK to import the data into Windows Contacts. And, you're
> finished.
>
> There may be nifty utilities out there on the Net, to automatically
> synchronise your Outlook and Windows Contacts. But otherwise, it's a matter
> of manually transferring the data from one to the other. Of course if you
> are on a corporate network, you can use Active Directory, for both Outlook
> and your Windows Fax contacts.
>
> Hope it helps,
> --
> Andrew McLaren
> amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au
>
>
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