Usually referred to as PAB, Personal Address Book is the file containing Microsoft Outlook and Exchange Server’s address book data for Microsoft email consumers. To maximize efficiency, it keeps contacts including email addresses in a different location than the email data. One can manually add the contact details of a PAB file. PAB is categorized as a text file among file types.

Developer

The file extension aims to satisfy the need to preserve contacts in Microsoft Outlook 2003 and previous editions. Microsoft started the file extension development. Additionally compatible with the most recent versions of both Mac and Windows, which are 2016 editions, is contact information saving.

Category

The widely popular file extension is considered a text file.

Supportive Apps

It supports MS Outlook Express

MS Exchange Server

MS Outlook 2003/2007/2010/2013/2016

Location

The file extension saves in the default location, but it is depended on the MS Outlook versions users are using.

For Windows Vista/8/7

C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\

For Windows XP/2003

C: Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\

A PAB file holds address details of MS Outlook and Exchange Server, Users can access these files using these email apps.