What Different Types of Address Books Can the Address Book Store?
As explained in FAQ 3.1, the Address Book is actually a collection of address books rather than a single list of addresses. This is so that Outlook can support multiple address book types and formats, and enable you access to them via a single point. To further explain what we mean, Outlook currently supports the following four types of address books that individually can have different formats and can be stored in different places. However, all these address books can be access via the Outlook Address Book so that you don’t have to manually search through each of the four for the desired contact information. • Outlook Address Book—Confusingly, the collection of address books is called the Address Book and one of the types is called the Outlook Address Book. However, that’s how Microsoft chose to name these entities, so we’re basically stuck with it. The important thing to know here is that the Outlook Address Book is made up of the Contacts folders that you see in the Navigation Pane.
