After Dwnld of outlook free trial I am having problems. Pls Help

[rbrilliant]

Now that 30 days has past since my download of the free outlook trial, I am
finding no way to go back to my original outlook. Everytime I open outlook it
asks me to convert. I would like to onvert at a later time even if it means
going back to my old version except that is not a choice on the "convert"
menu. Now when I am in outlook I can't reply to messages or foward or 1/100th
of the things I could do before. I have a lot of important info in outlook
and cant just uninstall the new one reinstall the old. On top of it I have a
sony Viao and they simply come with recovery disks and no microsoft disks at
all. Any suggestions?

 

[BillR [MVP]]

What type of local storage file did you use - Unicode or ANSI?

 

[Vanguard \(NPI\)]

Now that 30 days has past since my download of the free outlook trial, I
am
finding no way to go back to my original outlook. Everytime I open outlook
it
asks me to convert. I would like to onvert at a later time even if it
means
going back to my old version except that is not a choice on the "convert"
menu. Now when I am in outlook I can't reply to messages or foward or
1/100th
of the things I could do before. I have a lot of important info in outlook
and cant just uninstall the new one reinstall the old. On top of it I have
a
sony Viao and they simply come with recovery disks and no microsoft disks
at
all. Any suggestions?

Older versions of any software won't know anything about format changes to
files made in later versions. Programs can be made backward compatibility
but it is impossible to make any software fully forward compatible with
whatever changes may be made in the future.

Most likely you choose (by default) to let the demo OL2003 version create
Unicode-encoded PST files. Well, older versions of Outlook won't understand
that new format, so you will have to convert all your PST files back to the
old ANSI format if you want the older versions to be able to read those
files.