How do I merge data from two calendars (outlook)

[Guest]

I have a personal calendar and having just started a private business also
started a business calendar both on the same PC in Outlook 2003. I can drag
items from one calendar to the other but cannot copy across. 2 calendars are
now getting a mess and not checking both leads to conflicting appointments --
Is there an easy way to copy one calendar into the other. Eventuakky I would
like to be able to transfer the merged calendar from the PC onto my laptop.
Experiments with copying files to a removable drive and taking it to the othe
machine have not met with success.
Hope someone can advise. Thank you.
David

 

[Guest]

David,
The best way I have found to copy the contents of one folder into another
folder is to create a new calendar view as follows:
1. Click on your Calendar folder.
2. Click View, Arrange By, Current View, Define Views
3. Select "Active Appointments" and click Copy
4. Rename the view "All Appointments" and click OK
5. Click Filter, Advanced, Remove (to remove the criteria), and OK
6. Click OK again, and Apply View

This will result in a view of all items in the calendar. You can then click
Ctrl-a to highlight all of the items. Right-click in anywhere in the
highlighted area. Hold the button down and drag the mouse to the Public
Folder calendar. Release the button and you will be given the option to Copy
or Move the contents.

 

[Guest]

David,

After getting the calendar in the shape you want it you should export the
calendar to a pst file. Open the pst file on the other computer, and follow
the instructions I posted earlier to copy the contents into the calendar on
the new machine.

 

[Brian Tillman]

After getting the calendar in the shape you want it you should export
the calendar to a pst file.

Never export to a PST. You lose data that way.

 

[Guest]

Holding down the control key while clicking and dragging the appointment from
one calendar to the next will copy the appointment.

However, I do not know if this works outside of Outlook set up on an
Exchange server. Also, this only allows you to copy one appointment at a
time.

 

[Guest]

Brian,

Without using PST files, how do you move data from one machine to another?

 

[Brian Tillman]

Without using PST files, how do you move data from one machine to
another?

I didn't say that you didn't use PSTs, I said don't use export/import. Just
copy the PST as it is without manipulating it. Since you already HAVE a
PST, why generate still another? And once it's on the other machine, why
import it, since you already have a PST> Open it, and its contents will be
available untouched with all linkages intact.