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To successfully achieve it with all data intact, one needs to properly understand what the process is all about and know exactly what settings to use.

Contrary to general perception, the OAB is not a physical address book but is a virtual concept.

It is a highly customized View of the Contacts folder or in other words, the OAB is just a representation of underlying Contacts folders.

It is hence NOT a standalone entity and should not be thought of as such.

Microsoft Outlook also doesnt save the OAB as a file that is separate from your data store.

On a local machine, the presence of the OAB is termed as a Personal Address Book (PAB).

In contrast to the OAB, the PAB is a physical address book that is saved on the disk by Outlook and it is separate from your data store.

From here you can select and copy the PAB file to another computer via any appropriate media.

If the source and target computer are on the same network, you can even paste the PAB file in a shared folder and access it from the target computer.

If you wish, you can click on Map Custom Fields to individually select the contact fields that you wish to export.

Just follow the above mentioned steps and perform all operations with the Outlook Address Book (OAB) successfully.

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