Backing up Entourage address book

I have Entourage 2004. How do I (in easy easy terms please) back up my address book? Can I back it up to a folder on my desktop? Should I back it up elsewhere? Once I back it up, is it easily restored if I have a problem?

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For further questions regarding Entourage, please post them on Microsoft's own forums as this forum is for troubleshooting Apple's own Mail and Address Book application, and Apple forums only provide support for Apple products:
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Hi All,
This may all sound funky, but here is where I find myself.
I have thousands of contacts that I send stuff to monthly. I use pages to create the material I send. All of these contacts live in Address Book. They are the only contacts in Address Book - specifically because I can only merge contacts that are in Address Book with Pages (which blows, but is a whole other issue).
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I am looking for an answer to a similar question. I use iCal and Address Book for family and personal calendars and contacts; I use Entourage for business calendars and contacts. I was successfully using Entourage 2004 to sync calendar events and contacts between my Mac and my Treo 650. I have now upgraded to Entourage 2008, which abandoned the direct sync conduit to the Treo. I am now forced to sync via iCal and Address Book. Which means that I seem to have a choice between (1) no longer syncing data between my Treo and my Mac or (2) accepting that all my Address Book data will land up in Entourage where I don't want it to be. (I can selectively choose which iCal calendars
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