Nope. You cannot access OE address book from Office. Why not use Outlook?
You don't have to use it as your default mail client, but you can open
Outlook and IMPORT the OE address book. Then you will have access to your
addresses.

However, you are missing so much of Office by not using Outlook. The address
book is really a Contact Manager and you can do so much more than with OE.
There's a great Calendar and you can add all anniversaries once and keep
them forever, setting up the Reminder to popup a pre-determined period in
advance and a whole bundle of useful tools.

--
Terry Farrell - Word MVP
http://word.mvps.org/

"rogerl" wrote in message
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:I am using Word 2000 under envelopes and lables and trying to access my
: Outlook Express address book. When I click on the address book icon it
tells
: me "logon failed. You need to log onto MS Exchange.... Unspecified error"
I
: use win XP SP2 and Office 2000 without Outlook. I also use MS Fax under
these
: conditions and have no problem accessing the address book with that
package.
: Any ideas please?