Can anyone help please ?
I have purchased a new laptop and am trying to instal outlook 2000.I have followed the
on-screen instructions but I cannot get the address book and hence it will not allow me send any messages. When I try the following is message shown " Error 0xA514011D occured while trying to open address book. Unable to find WAB DLL"
Thanks

Outlook on Vista (and Win7)

Outlook 2002, 2000, 98, and 97 are not supported on Vista. If you choose to install any of these applications you should expect errors and annoyances. The better known problems are listed below but there may be others I'm not aware of. These versions of Outlook are all long out of support and Microsoft will not release patches to fix any problems with these versions. Upgrading is highly recommended, or use the new Vista calendar and mail applications if you are unwilling or unable to upgrade.

Outlook 2000: Internet Mail Only (IMO) mode will fail due to the missing wab.dll (Windows Address Book). Corporate/Workgroup mode seems to work fine, except the Startup dialog comes up each time you restart Outlook (click Next and work your way through the dialog), but with more extensive use, additional issues may come to light. If you are using Outlook 2000 for email because you need the calendar, it's probably well worth your time to try the Mail and Calendar applications included with Vista. Windows Mail is more secure than Outlook 2000 and includes anti-spam filtering. The Calendar application supports many of the features found in Outlook 2007's calendar, including calendar sharing and publishing. If you are using Outlook for Word's spell check, Windows Live Mail Desktop supports "spell check as you type"

You can try copying the wab.dll to Vista and registering it. While this will end the error, the address book may not function correctly. For more information, see Hack the WAB.

Technically only 2003 & 2007 are supported on Vista/7. However I know of my Mom's that word, excel, and power point (2000) work and 2002 student (including outlook) works on my Dad's computer both of which have Vista. Personally I haven't tried outlook 2000 on Vista. If that hack doesn't work, I don't know what to tell you. Do you have the 32 or 64 bit version of Vista? Right click on computer, select properties, and on that page look for it to say 32 or 64 bit.