Contact list nightmare

My Windows Mail contact list has 'reverted' to a different format: it has
headers such as "Genre", "Name" "Artist" etc so it thinks its a list of music
files or similar. When I click on the contact button I no longer get the
options to create a group, add a contact etc.

How on earth do I get the file back into the right fomat?

(I should say that if I'm sending a message I can still bring up the correct
listing when I click on the 'book' icon beside the "to:" button.)

Help, please.

Thanks

(boilerplate reply).....

When you have the Contacts folder open, you should have a button on the
toolbar for "New Contact", "New Contact Group", Import" and "Export". If
you don't see these buttons, the folder template got changed, as it
sometimes does...

Right-click on a blank area of the right pane, and select "Customize this
folder".
In the pull-down box, select "Contacts"
OK


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"JillyB" <JillyB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> My Windows Mail contact list has 'reverted' to a different format: it has
> headers such as "Genre", "Name" "Artist" etc so it thinks its a list of
> music
> files or similar. When I click on the contact button I no longer get the
> options to create a group, add a contact etc.
>
> How on earth do I get the file back into the right fomat?
>
> (I should say that if I'm sending a message I can still bring up the
> correct
> listing when I click on the 'book' icon beside the "to:" button.)
>
> Help, please.
>
> Thanks