After uninstall of Outlook 2007 Rules have Bad Format

[Dan Klinge]

The error message I get in Outlook 2003 after uninstalling 2007 and
re-installing 2003 is "Your stored rules appear to have a bad format"

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

you'll need to recreate the rules.

 

[Dan Klinge]

How? It won't let me into the Rules area at all.

 

[Paul Goverts IV]

I found a solution for it: If you can open Outlook Web Access, go into rules
from there and most likely one of the first rules will be something along
the lines of "De-categorize all messages" or something like that. It is a
rule that definitely looks out of place. I deleted that one and saved, then
i could edit my rules from within outlook again.

Paul

 

[Dan Klinge]

You, my friend, are brilliant. Who woulda thought going around the back and
using the lesser technology to fix the more complex would work with a
Microsoft product??? Awesome! Thanks for your help.

 

[ritchiejohnson]

Very Nice, worked for me too. Appreciate the INFO!!

 

[ritchiejohnson]

Very Nice, worked for me too. Appreciate the INFO!!

 

[Donald Mills]

How do you get to Web Access? Don't mean to be dense, but I need help...

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Outlook Web Access is provided via Internet if your account is hosted on an
Exchange server.

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| How do you get to Web Access? Don't mean to be dense, but I need
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||| I found a solution for it: If you can open Outlook Web Access, go
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||| from there and most likely one of the first rules will be something
||| along the lines of "De-categorize all messages" or something like
||| that. It is a
||| rule that definitely looks out of place. I deleted that one and
||| saved, then
||| i could edit my rules from within outlook again.
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||| Paul
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|||| ||||| you'll need to recreate the rules.
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[Patrick Schmid]

Outlook Web Access is an Exchange Server product. So if you have an
Exchange server, ask your IT how to get to it. If you don't have one,
then you don't have Outlook Web Access.

Patrick Schmid

 

[Guest]

Does this work in Exchange 2000?

I found a solution for it: If you can open Outlook Web Access, go into rules
from there and most likely one of the first rules will be something along
the lines of "De-categorize all messages" or something like that. It is a
rule that definitely looks out of place. I deleted that one and saved, then
i could edit my rules from within outlook again.

Paul