Importing into Outlook 2007

[Craig_fza]

Hi

I am running a dual-boot PC. One side in XP SP2 with Office 2003 and the
other side is Vista RC1 with Office 2007. I want to transfer my messages from
Outlook 2003 to Outlook 2007 as I want to use Vista and Office 2007. I have
tried to export the file under Outlook 2003 to a pst file and then import
under Outlook 2007.

First problem was permissions, which I have corrected, but now when I try
import I get an error message which says that the pst file cannot be opened.
No reason why. I have checked both attributes and permisions and cannot see
anything out of the ordinary. Does Outlook 2007 have a new format for the pst
file?

Please help thanks.

 

[Patrick Schmid [MVP]]

You prob. have your data already in a PST file (check Tools, Account
Settings, Data Files). Simply copy that file to your Vista partition and
add it to Outlook there.

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[Craig_fza]

Hi Patrick

Wow as simple as that! Thank you so much. I was struggling a bit there. I
copies the PST into my user folder on the Vista partition and then evrything
worked fine. The import was successful.

Thanks again
--
Craig
Johannesburg
South Africa

You prob. have your data already in a PST file (check Tools, Account
Settings, Data Files). Simply copy that file to your Vista partition and
add it to Outlook there.

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
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[msyuen]

A similar question I have is how one can import Outlook 2003 settings
into Outook 2007. Office 2003 includes a tool to save the settings to a
file. However, I did not find such a utility available in Office 2007.

Michael

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

That tool has been passed off to the Windows Vista group. It is no longer an Office tool.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:

| A similar question I have is how one can import Outlook 2003 settings
| into Outook 2007. Office 2003 includes a tool to save the settings to
| a file. However, I did not find such a utility available in Office
| 2007.
|
| Michael
|
| Craig_fza wrote:
|| Hi
||
|| I am running a dual-boot PC. One side in XP SP2 with Office 2003 and
|| the other side is Vista RC1 with Office 2007. I want to transfer my
|| messages from Outlook 2003 to Outlook 2007 as I want to use Vista
|| and Office 2007. I have tried to export the file under Outlook 2003
|| to a pst file and then import under Outlook 2007.
||
|| First problem was permissions, which I have corrected, but now when
|| I try import I get an error message which says that the pst file
|| cannot be opened. No reason why. I have checked both attributes and
|| permisions and cannot see anything out of the ordinary. Does Outlook
|| 2007 have a new format for the pst file?
||
|| Please help thanks.
|| --
|| Craig
|| Johannesburg
|| South Africa

 

[msyuen]

Thank you, Milly.

That's disappointing as it'll force you to switch over to Vista for
which I am not ready yet (due to a couple problems I'm having with it
in regards to password-protected consumer NAS drives.)

Thank you again for your response.

 

[Nevsky]

I am absolutely totally frustrated. This is one of the worst upgrade
experiences I have ever had. I can not get my pst files from Office 2003
imported in any way into Windows Mail. I have even tried installing Outlook
2003 (and afer vailidation issues resolved) still can not get it to run as it
can not find mapi32.dll. For a similar reason the import tool will not work.

So I can not use Outlook 2003 on my computer (which I wanted to do as I read
that that might enable me to do the import to 2007). I can not get 2007 to
recognize or import my pst files. I have wasted hours. Help!

Thank you

 

[Roady [MVP]]

I think part of your issues is cuased because you are mixing up things.
Windows Mail is not Outlook 2007. Windows Mail is the successor of Outlook
Express and a completely separate product. It is not able to read your
pst-files.

What upgrade path did you choose, what products do you have and where do you
want your mail eventually to end up in?

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


-----

I am absolutely totally frustrated. This is one of the worst upgrade
experiences I have ever had. I can not get my pst files from Office 2003
imported in any way into Windows Mail. I have even tried installing
Outlook
2003 (and afer vailidation issues resolved) still can not get it to run as
it
can not find mapi32.dll. For a similar reason the import tool will not
work.

So I can not use Outlook 2003 on my computer (which I wanted to do as I
read
that that might enable me to do the import to 2007). I can not get 2007
to
recognize or import my pst files. I have wasted hours. Help!

Thank you

That tool has been passed off to the Windows Vista group. It is no
longer an Office tool.

--Â
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:

| A similar question I have is how one can import Outlook 2003 settings
| into Outook 2007. Office 2003 includes a tool to save the settings to
| a file. However, I did not find such a utility available in Office
| 2007.
|
| Michael
|
| Craig_fza wrote:
|| Hi
||
|| I am running a dual-boot PC. One side in XP SP2 with Office 2003 and
|| the other side is Vista RC1 with Office 2007. I want to transfer my
|| messages from Outlook 2003 to Outlook 2007 as I want to use Vista
|| and Office 2007. I have tried to export the file under Outlook 2003
|| to a pst file and then import under Outlook 2007.
||
|| First problem was permissions, which I have corrected, but now when
|| I try import I get an error message which says that the pst file
|| cannot be opened. No reason why. I have checked both attributes and
|| permisions and cannot see anything out of the ordinary. Does Outlook
|| 2007 have a new format for the pst file?
||
|| Please help thanks.
|| --
|| Craig
|| Johannesburg
|| South Africa

 

[Nevsky]

Thank you very much. You really clarified this. Not being that familiar
with the Vista interface, the only option I saw in the Program options was
Windows Mail, which was near the top. After your post, when I went to Office
2007 and clicked on it, then I saw Outlook 2007 and was able to get
everything going.

I think part of your issues is cuased because you are mixing up things.
Windows Mail is not Outlook 2007. Windows Mail is the successor of Outlook
Express and a completely separate product. It is not able to read your
pst-files.

What upgrade path did you choose, what products do you have and where do you
want your mail eventually to end up in?

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


-----

I am absolutely totally frustrated. This is one of the worst upgrade
experiences I have ever had. I can not get my pst files from Office 2003
imported in any way into Windows Mail. I have even tried installing
Outlook
2003 (and afer vailidation issues resolved) still can not get it to run as
it
can not find mapi32.dll. For a similar reason the import tool will not
work.

So I can not use Outlook 2003 on my computer (which I wanted to do as I
read
that that might enable me to do the import to 2007). I can not get 2007
to
recognize or import my pst files. I have wasted hours. Help!

Thank you

That tool has been passed off to the Windows Vista group. It is no
longer an Office tool.

--Â
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:

| A similar question I have is how one can import Outlook 2003 settings
| into Outook 2007. Office 2003 includes a tool to save the settings to
| a file. However, I did not find such a utility available in Office
| 2007.
|
| Michael
|
| Craig_fza wrote:
|| Hi
||
|| I am running a dual-boot PC. One side in XP SP2 with Office 2003 and
|| the other side is Vista RC1 with Office 2007. I want to transfer my
|| messages from Outlook 2003 to Outlook 2007 as I want to use Vista
|| and Office 2007. I have tried to export the file under Outlook 2003
|| to a pst file and then import under Outlook 2007.
||
|| First problem was permissions, which I have corrected, but now when
|| I try import I get an error message which says that the pst file
|| cannot be opened. No reason why. I have checked both attributes and
|| permisions and cannot see anything out of the ordinary. Does Outlook
|| 2007 have a new format for the pst file?
||
|| Please help thanks.
|| --
|| Craig
|| Johannesburg
|| South Africa