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Microsoft Outlook 2003

May 27, 2004 7:19PM PDT

Windows XP Home Edition
HP Pavilion, Pentium 4, 1.5ghz
512mb memory
Norton Antivirus 2003
Zone Alarm

I will shortly be setting up a new computer with Microsoft Office 2003 and will copy data files from my present machine to the new one. I can see no problems with copying, for example, my Excel files, but would like some advice on how to copy my present Outlook email files to the new machine. I am sure the Microsoft Knowledge base has information on this but have not had any luck in finding such. I would appreciate being pointed towards any relevant articles explaining the procedures involved in copying email and other Outlook files from my present machine to Outlook on my new machine.

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Re:Microsoft Outlook 2003
May 27, 2004 9:49PM PDT

In http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-6122-0.html?forumID=44&threadID=14256&messageID=161573 I explained how to find all of Outlook's files. Procedures for Outlook 2003 might be different, but I can't imagine it has disappeared at all. Other posts in the same thread might be helpful also.

In my opinion:

First thing to try: simply transfer the files from the old to the new machine.

Second thing to try: File>Export on the old machine, File>Import on the new machine. For those data that doesn't survive the first method.

Hope this helps, and let us know.


Kees

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Re:Re:Microsoft Outlook 2003
May 28, 2004 6:53AM PDT
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(NT) Good work!
May 28, 2004 7:38AM PDT

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