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How to bring back contacts display in Outlook express?

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Outlook Express was an excellent email messaging platform that was present in Windows Vista and XP. It had a limited and straightforward user-interface where users like to add their accounts and send or receive emails. It had an Address Book where users could add multiple email addresses and open them while sending them.

When the user opens the Address Book, then the email address will be presented in the list. The user can double-click on them and add them to compose the mail. The different method to add the email address is to open the Address Book in the main window of Outlook Express. But, if you have deleted the contacts accidentally, then how will you recover them? We are presenting you with a simple inbuilt process where the user can bring back the contacts.

You need not to worry as you can easily bring back contacts in Outlook Express.

Bring back contacts display in Outlook express

To restore the Contacts pane in Outlook Express:

1. Select the View menu and then select the Layout options
2. Check the Contacts checkbox, if it is  un-checked

3. Click OK and Apply.

Now you can start using the Contacts pane again in Outlook Express and get the easy access of address book contacts. However, this contact pane display up to only 999 contacts from the address book.

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