Keeping e-mails when installing 2007

[DLGolfs]

I have Outlook 2000 and want to buy 2007 office, how do I keep the contact
list? Is it the wab file and which one? also, how do I keep all my personal
folders and e-mails in them?
It looks like the only version available is the full version so I am afraid
that I will lose everything in 2000.

Will I still lose everything if I use theupgrade?
Any place I can buy the upgrade other than microsoft?
I want to buy the office standard. ty

 

[K. Orland]

Your contact list is in the PST (personal folders) file which also contains
your emails, calendar entries, etc. In addition, if you've archived mail it
will be in your archive.pst file. In order to upgrade you'll want to copy
your PST to another location, but do this while Outlook is closed. You'll
have to completely uninstall Office 2000 before installing Office 2007.
There will be a trick to working with the PST from Outlook 2000 and using it
with Outlook 2007 because of the format and version discrepancy.

 

[DLGolfs]

So I understand, I will have to achive all my e-mails to .pst files, copy
them to an USB, for example, then copy them back into oulook 2007?
YOu stated that i might have a problem recovering the 2000 in the 2007
format, what problems do you anticipate and will I be able to over come these?

Also, what about the address book, how do I keep that?

And there is a file marked "personalfolders" that I can copy to another
location? What is the exact name of the file? ty

 

[K. Orland]

Everything is contained in your PST - emails, calendar, contacts, etc. No
need to archive. Archiving would move everything to a different PST. There
isn't a problem recovering the PST in Outlook 2007 but you must make Outlook
able to read the older PST.

The PST in older versions of Outlook (2002 and earlier) have a size limit of
2 GB max, and can corrupt easily once it reaches about 1.5 or slightly
larger. Outlook 2007 doesn't have the same limit and their native PST files
can grow to 20 GB. Opening the Outlook 2000 PST in Outlook 2007 will not
change the size limit on the PST. You have to create a new PST in Outlook
2007's native Unicode format to achieve the larger PST size limit.

Don't export your Outlook data and then import it into Outlook 2007, this
can cause corruption. You simply use File > Open and browse to the existing
PST. The PST must be kept locally on the laptop/PC so if you burn it to CD or
put it on a USB key, you must transfer it to your C drive and then point
Outlook to it. If it doesn't open, you must remove the read-only attribute
and then try again.

 

[DLGolfs]

you write:
You have to create a new PST in Outlook
2007's native Unicode format to achieve the larger PST size limit.
Do you have a procedure for this I can follow? OR, did you tell me in your
next paragraph? I understand the process and the read only attribute.
thanks

 

[K. Orland]

You don't have to create a new PST but your current PST will be limited in
size. If you wish to create a new PST in Outlook 2007, I believe you click on
File > new data file or similar.

 

[DLGolfs]

Sorry, I did not make my question clear to you... IMy PST file in
doc/settings/application data/Microsoft/outlok is 275,000KB, so all I need to
do is put it in another location when OUtlook is closed, and then copy and
paste it in the new 2007 outlook PST location, correct? If we are on the same
page...then you wrote:
You have to create a new PST in Outlook 2007's native Unicode format to
achieve the larger PST size limit. How do I do this? OR, don't I have to
worry about this b/c my PST in 2000 is so small?
ty

 

[K. Orland]

Simply use your current PST in that case.

 

[DLGolfs]

What about my address book in Outlook, what is the file? It is a WAB?

 

[K. Orland]

Your contacts are part of the PST.