The proper method to transfer Outlook data is documented here (for future
reference)
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm
Never use the transfer settings option to move your Outlook data.
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
How to ask a question:
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
After furious head scratching, Niccum asked:
| Figured it out. Outlook.pst file is only the folders and emails. It
| did not set up any email accounts. I used the "Save My Settings
| Wizard" in Programs...MS Office...MS Office Tools" as discussed in
| the post entitled "how to backup email and all email account
| settings?". Once the email accounts were set up, then the Rules and
| Alerts showed up under Tools in Outlook.
|
| "Niccum" wrote:
|
|| My Rules Wizard menu has disappeared also. I am setting up a new
|| Vista computer with Outlook 2003 (11.8169.8172) SP3. I loaded MS
|| Office and then ran MS Office Update. I successfully transferred my
|| Outlook.pst file, but when I went to import my rules, the Rules
|| option is not even in the Menu under Tools. It is gone! Did this
|| feature get taken away in the Update? Please let me know how to get
|| the rules back...
||
|| "antioch" wrote:
||
||| Diane
||| Thank you for the reply - yes I am in the 'In Box' as per all
||| instructions I have read - it defaults to that anyway when opened.
||| However, things have moved on a bit since my first post - I have
||| again gone to the Office Ass and on a search for 'rules wizard' the
||| first box that comes up says ' you can create a rule three ways'.
||| I have just noticed that the word 'rule' is in pale blue and had
||| not spotted this on previous readings. This brings up a VBScript
||| info box which says 'Help cant show this procedure because the
||| security setting in your browser is too high or the Active X
||| control Ouactrl.ocx didnt install correctly.' Browser security
||| settings are currently all medium IE 6.
||| It goes on to say I could set the security lower - not too keen to
||| do that - and if after that I get the same message I am to consult
||| my system admin. to help install the Active X properly.
||| I am currently looking into this Active X but have yet to find it
||| in the Outlook or Office folders - perhaps I need to get it from
||| the Office disc. Thank you for the 'Tips' links - most handy and
||| now in favourites.
|||
||| Rgds
||| Antioch
|||
||| |||| Are you in the Inbox? The rules option is only available when you
|||| are in mail folders.
||||
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|||| ||||| I am running a single personal computer with XP Home SP2 fully
||||| updated - not been offered SP3 as yet
- with MS Office 2000.
||||| I am the Administrator.
||||| I currently use Outlook Express 6 for emails and newsgroups, but
||||| thought I might try Outlook for email as well.
||||| I have a couple of rules in OE and I have been looking to see how
||||| to set rules in Outlook - I have Outlook 2000 v 9.0.0.6627.
||||| I have looked at the MS website re rules and have been into help
||||| in Outlook to see what instructions there are in the Office
||||| Assistant.
||||| When I follow the instructions and go to 'Tools' there is no Rule
||||| Wizard to select from the drop-down menu.
|||||
||||| Is there something that failed to install when I put Office on the
||||| computer or some other reason for it not being where all the
||||| instructions say it is?
|||||
||||| Rgds
||||| Antioch
