After transferring outlook to a new PC (and transferring emails / contact list), a customer got a strange error when composing a new email:
She would click on the “To:” button, but instead of getting a popup contact list, she would get the error message: The address list could not be displayed. The Contacts folder associated with this address list could not be opened…
But by clicking “OK”, she would be able to select a “second” contact list from a drop-down menu in the “select names” window… Its somewhat confusing , as both contact lists are called “Contacts”… But the second one does work…
I find Microsoft have a solution to this “contact list” corruption… remove and recreate the contact list.
Ah, Microsoft… as subtle as a sledgehammer.
I found a better solution:
- From the main outlook window: tools -> address book
- From the Address book window: tools -> options
- Select the “other” contact list in the first 2 drop down lists, and change the order of Contacts in the “check names” list.
- OK out of the window, restart outlook, and now the customer doesn’t get prompted about non-existent address list.
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