outlook 2000 to 2003

[Craig]

I am running Office 2000, with Publisher 2002 & Frontpage 2002. I want to
install Office 2003. I have the full install version of Office 2003. Do I
need to uninstall Office 2000, or just install 2003 over it?

What do I need to do about converting my .pst file to the 2003 format? I am
bumping up against the 2 GB limit in the 2000 format.

 

[Support7556]

We made a full export to a pst file from Outlook 2000 and copied it for a
backup.
2Gb is going to be a slow pig in any version of Outlook.
I would suggest Creating a special Archive of everything 6 months or older.
And then OPEN (other users/folders/files) that archive.pst when needed.
We manually uninstalled Outlook 2000 and then installed Outlook 2003
However I'm fairly sure Outlook 2003 install will detect 2000 and do the
same thing.
BOL Glenn.

 

[Support7556]

About Outlook 2003 Data Format, 2003 has a Data File Management tool.
I suggest creating a new profile to your exchange server with the new 2003
data file type (default). Then import your purged pst into it.

 

[Brian Tillman]

What do I need to do about converting my .pst file to the 2003
format? I am bumping up against the 2 GB limit in the 2000 format.

In Outlook, click File>New>Outlook Data File. Select "Office Outlook
Personal Folders File" (which should be the default anyway) and click OK.
Browse to the folder where you'd like to store it (or accept the default).
Give it a file name (or accept the default). Click OK. Give it a display
name (or accept the default) and click OK. A new folder set, containing the
single folder "Deleted Items" will appear in your Folder List view of the
Navigation Pane.

Make the new PST your default delivery location with the "Deliver new e-mail
to the following location" drop-down at the bottom left of Tools>E-mail
Accounts>Next. Stop and restart Outlook. When it restarts, your new PST
will be the "Outlook Today" PST and will be populated with a full complement
of default folders, all empty. Yor old folders will also appear, probably
under the "Personal Folders" heading.

For each non-default folder in your old PST, right-click and drag it to the
root of your new folder set, release the button and choose Copy.
Alternatively, select it, click Edit>Copy to Folder and specify the root of
the new PST (currently your default) as the destination. Click OK. The
entire folder will be moved to the new PST.

For each default folder in the old PST, open the folder, select all the
items in it (CTRL-A usually works) and either right-click and drag it to the
corresponding folder in the new PST, choosing Copy when you release the
mouse, or click Edit>Copy to Folder and specify the corresponding default
folder as the destination (copy the contents of the old Calendar folder to
the new Calendar, for example). For the Calendar folder, you'll have to
switch to a list view like By Category before CTRL-A will select everything.

When you're all done copying, right-click the root of the old PST and choose
Close.