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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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After furious head scratching, Elaine A asked:
| Sorry I wasn't clear: we have full Office 2003 on both computers.
|
| Once I set up our acct on the laptop how do I transfer all my contact,
| calendar, existing e-mails etc to my acct on the laptop?
|
| Elaine
|
| "VanguardLH" wrote:
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|| Elaine A wrote:
||
||| We have a laptop in addition to our main computer. They are only
||| sporadically linked due to network problems.
|||
||| We have Outlook 2003. How do I switch Outlook and all my data to
||| my laptop? I currently use my laptop 90% of the time and would like
||| to have all my features rather than using webmail etc.
||
|| Did you get MS Office 2003 and install Outlook as a component of that
|| suite? Or did you purchase Outlook 2003 alone (i.e., not part of a
|| suite)? If your Outlook 2003 is part of the MS Office 2003 suite,
|| are you going to also move over all the other components of Office
|| 2003 (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, etc.) from the desktop to the
|| laptop? If you move a component of Office, you need to move it all.
|| You can't slice up its single license across multiple computers ...
|| maybe. Read the EULA for your Office product. I remember awhile
|| back that Office users were allowed to install it on a laptop as a
|| secondary host but only if it were not concurrently in use with the
|| desktop (i.e., while you are using Office on your laptop, your
|| spouse cannot be using Office on the desktop). The licenses are
|| listed at:
||
||
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/HA102103671033.aspx?pid=CL100796341033
||
|| I only looked at the license for Word, which said:
||
|| "Installation and use. You may: (a) install and use a copy of the
|| Software on one personal computer or other device; and user (b)
|| install an additional copy of the Software on a second, portable
|| device for the exclusive use of the primary of the first copy of the
|| Software."
||
|| I think the license is pretty much the same for all the components.
|| So lug the Office install CD to your laptop and install a 2nd copy
|| there. Then copy your .pst file from your desktop to your laptop.
|| I'd probably just start Outlook on the laptop and have it create a
|| default message store. Then find out where it put that .pst file,
|| exit Outlook, and overwrite it with the .pst file copied from the
|| desktop.
