Many thanks for your thoughtful suggestion, Kurt, for which I am most grateful. I spent all this morning trying to import in the manner you described, but I'm such a dunderhead that I never could get it to work. Finally, I just imported the old address book from Communicator and made individual corrections to the out of date addresses so that the two address books now show the same addresses. I'm still puzzling, however, over why Outlook Express continues to import an old address book from Communicator. I've concluded, possibly incorrectly, that it's just the Microsoft way! I also tried to export from Communicator to Outlook Express, but that didn't do the trick either. Frustration, frustration, frustration!!!!! Bob Black