rules not installed in outlook 2007

[Guest]

Hi all!,

This is a little odd. I installed office 2007 and any rule functionality did
not show up in outlook. So I uninstalled and reinstalled and the same thing
occured.

There is not mention of rules on any menu anywhere.

I'm a bit puzzled.

Thanks for you help

 

[Diane Poremsky]

"Rules and Alerts" are on the Tools menu - about the 5th item down. If they
really are missing, reset the toolbar.
Right click on the toolbar, choose customize. Click the toolbar tab and
select menu bar then reset.

 

[Guest]

thanks!

It was a little odd what happen. I imported my outlook pst file, and the
rules were no where to be found. I had not set up an email account yet

Then, when I added the email account, rules showed up

Guess that is how it works. Go figure.

Beth

 

[Diane Poremsky]

It depends on the version of Outlook you used previously. New versions store
them in the PST and can reconnect to them, older versions did not - you had
to export them as a RWZ file and import on the new system or recreate them
from scratch. Since they only work with email, yes, you need the email
account configured.

 

[Brian Tillman]

It was a little odd what happen. I imported my outlook pst file, and
the rules were no where to be found. I had not set up an email
account yet

Then, when I added the email account, rules showed up

By the way, never export to or import from a PST. There's simply no reason
and you'll lose data if you do.