How do Outlook and Outlook Express relate?

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I am trying to transfer my contact information from Outlook to OE. Is there a way to do this? Thanks.

I would, in outlook create a Personal Address Book, copy all my contacts into that, and then Import that into Outlook Express. I've not tried this, but it seems the most direct route.

Hi,
Is there any way that I can get Outlook express to use the Outlook contacts folder? I want to be able to make changes to my contacts and then send e-mails through express. I don't want to have to keep importing the address book from outlook to use on express.
thanks

No, not that I'm aware of.

The toolbar keeps disappearing on my (latest) version of Outlook Express. Can anyone help me with this, please?

You should be able to right click on the menu bar and select the toolbar again.

I have Outlook on one computer and Outlook Express on a different one for the same email account. When I read messages on one computer, those messages do not appear at all in the inbox on the other computer, so my two inboxes in the two programs have different messages. Since it is the same email account, shouldn't it have the same inbox wherever I access it, and in any program? How do I fix this? I tried to recover the messages by setting the option "leave messages on server" but the messsages didn't appear in the other inbox.

Since email programs download the messages to their own local storage, what you're experiencing is expected. You need to make sure that both are configured to leave messages on the server for some period of time.

Dear Leo,
Thanks for answering my previous post! I have an iPaq and have synchronized with Outlook 2002. As far as I know the Notes however can't transfer categories into the iPaq. I have tried to create folders in my iPaq and file them but the Notes disappear from outlook. It seems that outlook can only 'see' the notes when they are moved up to one sub folder from 'My Documents' in the iPaq. But that I mean that I have a folder called 'Notes' in 'My Documents' in the iPaq and outlook can read and synchronize that. Any other folder within 'Notes' cannot be read by outlook. Is there any way I can make Outlook see the whole tree (ex: My Documents/Notes/Hotels), or any way I can have categories in the iPaq? Will outlook 2003 solve either of these?
Thanks. Alexis

I don't really have any good answers for you other than to guess that outlook 2003 probably won't change/help. Typically these types of issues are a function of the ActiveSync software used to synchronize between the devices.

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