How do you backup Microsoft Outlook?

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Gary

My wife uses MS Outlook for her mail, and would like to back up her
Address Book and her current and saved emails onto a CD disk.

I do not use Outlook for my mail, so I'm not familiar with where the
files are to hold this information. Could someone tell me what files
to backup?
 
Gary said:
My wife uses MS Outlook for her mail, and would like to back up her
Address Book and her current and saved emails onto a CD disk.

I do not use Outlook for my mail, so I'm not familiar with where the
files are to hold this information. Could someone tell me what files
to backup?
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File>Export and follow the wizard. You want to back up Outlook to a
*.pst file. Save it somewhere your wife will find it, like in her My
Documents and back it up to cd-r regularly. For recent versions of
Outlook, you can also install the Personal Folders Backup Tool from MS
Office>Outlook downloads.

For more questions about Outlook, post in an Outlook newsgroup like:
microsoft.public.outlook.general

Malke
 
Gary said:
My wife uses MS Outlook for her mail, and would like to back up her
Address Book and her current and saved emails onto a CD disk.

I do not use Outlook for my mail, so I'm not familiar with where the
files are to hold this information. Could someone tell me what files
to backup?
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Here's another option. Watch for line wrap on the URL

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...3a-b7d0-4b16-b8af-5a6322f4fd01&DisplayLang=en

Here's tiny URL of the above link

http://tinyurl.com/oh4l

gls858
 
I've always just backed up my .pst files every so often. I recently found a
small program ($9.99 at Fryes) called Email Backup and Relocator. It backs
up messages, contacts, calendar, settings, rules etc. It'll do it for
Outlook, Outlook Express and many other mail readers. It'll also back up
your Internet Explorer Favorites. And you can schedule it to do automatic
backups. For the price it was pretty nice.
 
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