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I need to make a duplicate copy of email address books from one outlook to another, I followed the instruction to File > export the 'Contacts' Folder, but apparently, that isn't the correct folder. Anyone have a clue how to resolve this issue? I kept getting fax numbers, company phone numbers and addresses instead of the email address that we needed to duplicate.

Google "export personal address book outlook" with the version.

Oh yeah.  I see your problem right here.  You're using Outlook.

Which version of Outlook?

Out of the 10 or so different desktop based mail clients I have used outlook is by far the best, nothing even comes close.  Unfortunately mobile phones work better with web based mail.

Outlook is still the king of the pile for most people - its just the dumb little things.

Like for all the new features in 2010, I still can't find a way to open a folder, highlight all the emails in a range of dates, and have the stupid son of a bitch tell me how many emails I highlighted.

I end up copying the entire range of emails to a new folder, then reading the email count at the bottom, and finally deleting them - I can't be the only person in the world that needs to know how many emails the department recieved last week?!?

When you say 'address book' are you actually trying to export the GAL? Are you connecting to an Exchange server?

2003 version. Yes, I do connect to exchange server.

I suspect you need to pull your company GAL down into a contacts folder and export that to get what you're looking for, although I'm not totally sure exactly which things you're trying to move where.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/238773

Back up your personal contacts and shit before doing, the KB article here has you changing where your personal contacts are stored and I can see the potential to accidentally fuck them up here.

Bunk:

Outlook 2010 does not count selected items, as you've noticed, but you can work around that by selecting all the items and hitting enter, Outlook will give you a little warning dialog about how "opening a lot of items can take a long time and do you REALLY want to open these X items", the X is the count you're looking for, just be sure to say no to the prompt.

Ingmar, you are my new hero. I hearby resolve to stop reading all your posts using Ingmar from Ikea's voice in my head.

Ingmar covered it but if your trying to grab the auto complete addresses also here's some tips. The auto complete addresses are stored in %appdata%\Microsoft\Outlook in the .nk2 files generally outlook.nk2 or your email profile name. There's no way to easily manage/merge them besides using up/down arrow keys and hitting delete. So make backups!

Posted this in the quick tech questions thread, but worth a try here:

Outlook 2007 with two inboxes. Inbox 1 is Google Apps (MAPI). Inbox 2 is IMAP and shared by about 4-5 people.

Inbox 1 receives emails fine, but Inbox 2 receives emails as plain text. In a lot of cases an HTML email is sent to both Inbox 1 and 2, which ends up being switched to plain text when received through Inbox 2. I've checked receive/sent settings, turned off AVG Email on everyone who has access and made sure the Google Mail settings weren't mucking with it.

I'm at a loss.

Do you have a way to access that second inbox through another client? What kind of mail server are those messages sitting on before you pull them down? Pulling them off from a different client would let you know if the messages are being converted to plain text server-side or if your issue is in Outlook somewhere.

I'll try installing another client and see if they're still converted.

Another interesting tidbit is that everyone who uses the inbox receives it in Plain text.

I'm guessing that is something the server is doing then, not the client, especially since your other inbox is displaying things normally. It shouldn't be something one of the other people is doing when accessing the inbox, since IMAP copies things down to you, it doesn't modify them on the server as far as I remember (though I haven't used it in ages.)

Are the servers Exchange?  I haven't supported it in years but you can force plain text to a mailbox apparently (http://serverfault.com/questions/58091/exchange-server-convert-incoming-mail-to-plain-text).