no the old address book is full, and there is the old computer, there on the kitchen table. My wife is very pissed off, cos she likes to eat her dinner off that table.

The new computer is in the computer room - empty address book. I can't work out how to get the old address book onto the new one.

I put it on a stick, burt as soon as it got stuck into the new computer it turned into the new address book - veirtually empty.

I burned the address book to a data disc, but that didn't work. I copied and pasted the adresses onto a word document. thinking I could copy and paste when I got it to the other side. but it wouldn't go down on the word document.

Bit of a bugger, isn't it?

I had a go at doing what you suggested John, but the search turned up some kind of document I couldn't get into.