how do i import outlook 2000 to office 2007?

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Messed up Marty

My old computer with Windows 2000, amd Office 2000 crashed and died. I did
have a backup to disc of my outlook 2000. I now have a new pc, with XP, and
Office 2007. I am trying to transfer my contacts from the old file to the
new. I don't know how. Whenever I try to open file. a message came up
saying "you are attempting to open a file of type Microsoft Office Outlook
Personal Folders (.pst)" it goes on to say that opening them could damge my
system. I then messed up, and somehow got to the stage where I changed the
"open with" option to Outlook manually, and now the error message reads: "the
command line arguement is not valid, verify the switch you are using". Can
someone please help...I am getting mired in a mess here!
 
In Outlook, File->Open->Outlook Data File. You never import native Outlook data.

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After furious head scratching, Messed up Marty asked:

| My old computer with Windows 2000, amd Office 2000 crashed and died.
| I did have a backup to disc of my outlook 2000. I now have a new pc,
| with XP, and Office 2007. I am trying to transfer my contacts from
| the old file to the new. I don't know how. Whenever I try to open
| file. a message came up saying "you are attempting to open a file of
| type Microsoft Office Outlook Personal Folders (.pst)" it goes on to
| say that opening them could damge my system. I then messed up, and
| somehow got to the stage where I changed the "open with" option to
| Outlook manually, and now the error message reads: "the command line
| arguement is not valid, verify the switch you are using". Can
| someone please help...I am getting mired in a mess here!
 
Yes, I tried that also...after reading some of the posts on here, but the
message came up saying: "file access is denied. you do not have the
permission required to access the file...(file path/name).pst"
 
Probably because you didn't copy the pst-file to your hard disk first and/or
not removed the Read Only file attribute.



Messed up Marty said:
Yes, I tried that also...after reading some of the posts on here, but the
message came up saying: "file access is denied. you do not have the
permission required to access the file...(file path/name).pst"



Milly Staples said:
In Outlook, File->Open->Outlook Data File. You never import native
Outlook data.

--Â
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Messed up Marty asked:

| My old computer with Windows 2000, amd Office 2000 crashed and died.
| I did have a backup to disc of my outlook 2000. I now have a new pc,
| with XP, and Office 2007. I am trying to transfer my contacts from
| the old file to the new. I don't know how. Whenever I try to open
| file. a message came up saying "you are attempting to open a file of
| type Microsoft Office Outlook Personal Folders (.pst)" it goes on to
| say that opening them could damge my system. I then messed up, and
| somehow got to the stage where I changed the "open with" option to
| Outlook manually, and now the error message reads: "the command line
| arguement is not valid, verify the switch you are using". Can
| someone please help...I am getting mired in a mess here!
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