I bought Microsoft Office 2007 for Small Business. I have an older version of
Office (2003 I think) on my desktop computer now. I have not installed the
2007 version yet because I don't want to lose all of the information in my
Outlook calendar (etc.). I have been searching online for information on
this, but have not found my answer.

Does anyone know how to transfer the information from one version of Outlook
to a newer version?

Thanks in advance for any help!!

greenbean0717 <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I bought Microsoft Office 2007 for Small Business. I have an older
> version of Office (2003 I think) on my desktop computer now. I have
> not installed the 2007 version yet because I don't want to lose all
> of the information in my Outlook calendar (etc.). I have been
> searching online for information on this, but have not found my
> answer.
>
> Does anyone know how to transfer the information from one version of
> Outlook to a newer version?

No transfer needed. Outlook 2007 will gladly use Outlook 2003 data, since
they both use the same format. You merely have to connect your existing PST
to the new mail profile.

Uninstall the old version, install the new and add your PST to the profile
you create. In fact, just install Office 2007. It should detect you have
the older version and ask if you wish to uninstall it. Make a backup of
your data first, though, just to be safe.
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

"Brian Tillman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> greenbean0717 <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> I bought Microsoft Office 2007 for Small Business. I have an older
>> version of Office (2003 I think) on my desktop computer now. I have
>> not installed the 2007 version yet because I don't want to lose all
>> of the information in my Outlook calendar (etc.). I have been
>> searching online for information on this, but have not found my
>> answer.
>>
>> Does anyone know how to transfer the information from one version of
>> Outlook to a newer version?
>
> No transfer needed. Outlook 2007 will gladly use Outlook 2003 data, since
> they both use the same format. You merely have to connect your existing
> PST to the new mail profile.
>
> Uninstall the old version, install the new and add your PST to the profile
> you create. In fact, just install Office 2007. It should detect you have
> the older version and ask if you wish to uninstall it. Make a backup of
> your data first, though, just to be safe.
> http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm
> --
> Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]
>

does this mean that if I upgrade to 2007, and it doesn't work out, I can
just save my outlook.PST file then go back and re-use it with a fresh
install of 2003?

john <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> does this mean that if I upgrade to 2007, and it doesn't work out, I
> can just save my outlook.PST file then go back and re-use it with a
> fresh install of 2003?

You bet.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]