When you export an address book from OE you have a choice of exporting to Microsoft Exchange or to a comma separated value (CSV) text file. A CSV file can be read by many different database programs including MS Excel, MS Access and others. A CSV file can NOT be read by OE. There is no need for that capability. If you want to IMPORT from a CSV file click file/import/OTHER address book/Text file (comma separated value)/Import. If you exported to Microsoft Exchange then choose to import from that instead of the Text file. If your intent is to save a copy of your address book in case you need to re-install OE or if you want to place the same address book in a second copy of OE simply copy the .wab file to the desired location. To find the .wab file click start/search and then search for *.wab. To find out where to put it when you need it, do the same search on the drive where you want it and then over write the existing .wab file. Let me suggest http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com as the premier source of information on Outlook Express. I can not emphasize enough the amount of useful information there. Far more than you will ever get from me or anyone else here. If that is not your first place to look for an answer, even before PCTT, then you will be wasting a lot of time to get the same answer here, eventually. And a lot of questions could very well go unanswered here. Don -----Original Message----- From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of ML Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 6:06 PM To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: saving OE export addy book problem ummmm.. what happened when I tried to export the addy book was it saved to MS Office format..I don't use that so..it wont open in OE...I need to be able to save to cvs for OE but when I tried to find the proper file format to change it to, nothing showed up..at my computer, tools, file types..??? so how am I going to change that file over to OE cvs instead of MS office OE or whater it is??? ml -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: http://www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ http://www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/