Incompatibility problems between Outlook 2000 and 2003

[hmc]

I started working at a place that is running Office 2003. I have Office 2000
at home. When I try to send calendar appts from work to home (using the
Invite Attendees feature) it doesn't work. O2000 just receives a text email
with the information as text. No Accept/Decline buttons.

I also tried to send regular emails with O2003 calendar items as
attachments. When they arrive in O2000, the calendar items are still there
as attachments, but they appear as text-based email messages.

THEN, I tried to drag appts from O2003 to a disk, take the disk home and
drag appts to O2000. Didn't work.

How can I bring O2003 calendar items to O2000?

 

[Brian Tillman]

I started working at a place that is running Office 2003. I have
Office 2000 at home. When I try to send calendar appts from work to
home (using the Invite Attendees feature) it doesn't work. O2000 just
receives a text email with the information as text. No Accept/Decline
buttons.

I also tried to send regular emails with O2003 calendar items as
attachments. When they arrive in O2000, the calendar items are still
there as attachments, but they appear as text-based email messages.

In what format are you sending the messages?

THEN, I tried to drag appts from O2003 to a disk, take the disk home
and drag appts to O2000. Didn't work.

Create an Outlook 97-2002 PST (FIle>New>Outlook Data File). Drag your
appointments into it. Close it. Put it on a disk. (You'll probably need
something bigger than a floppy.) Take it home. Copy it to your hard drive,
making sure you remove the Read-Pnly attribute if it's present. Start
Outlook. Click FIle>Open>Personal Folders File. Browse to the PST, select
it, and click OK. You'll now haev access to the appointments in it. Drag
them to your home calendar.

 

[hmc]

Is that really the ONLY way to transport Outlook 2003 items to O2000 (your
suggestion to create a 97-2000 pst file)? It's neither not very efficient
and nor user-friendly. I can't believe that Microsoft would make it so
difficult for items to be so incompatible from one version to the next.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Believe it. It's true.
Don't blame Brian.
Blame Microsoft.
They dropped the ball on this one.

 

[hmc]

Oh, I'm not blaming Brian at all. I actually should thank him for giving me
such a straight-forward, detailed reply. My exasperation stems from the fact
that I have to do something so ridiculous to get appts from work to home.
Microsoft should realize that not everyone upgrades Office the moment a new
version is released.

So, thank you, Brian. And, as for format I'm sending the msgs (see 2nd
paragraph of my original email), I'm sending them in HTML, not plain text.

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Believe it. It's true.
Don't blame Brian.
Blame Microsoft.
They dropped the ball on this one.

 

[Brian Tillman]

So, thank you, Brian. And, as for format I'm sending the msgs (see 2nd
paragraph of my original email), I'm sending them in HTML, not plain
text.

Seems to me that you need to send appointments as Rich Text if you want
another Outlook client to add them automaticaly.