Importing contacts from another computer

[Guest]

Hi
I have just bought a new laptop and want to import all my Outlook contacts
from my old laptop. New machine has Office 2003 and old one has Office 2000.

Can I email them across or use a memory stick?

Any help appreciated as I'm an idiot at this sort of thing!

thanks

H

 

[Gordon]

Hi
I have just bought a new laptop and want to import all my Outlook contacts
from my old laptop. New machine has Office 2003 and old one has Office
2000.

Can I email them across or use a memory stick?

Any help appreciated as I'm an idiot at this sort of thing!

thanks

H

On the old laptop, close Outlook and copy the pst file to the memory stick.
On the new, copy the pst file from the stick to your HDD. Remove any
Read-only attribute (right-click-properties). then in Outlook go to
File-Open-Outlook data file and navigate to where you copied it to. Open the
Contacts folder in the old file and copy all the data to the contacts folder
in the new file.

HTH

 

[Guest]

Hi Gordon
Thanks for that. OK, so far I have managed to get the pst file onto a stick
and transfer it to the new laptop. Now I'm stuck again.......how do I open
the contacts folder and copy the contacts?
Thanks
H

 

[Gordon]

Hi Gordon
Thanks for that. OK, so far I have managed to get the pst file onto a
stick
and transfer it to the new laptop. Now I'm stuck again.......how do I open
the contacts folder and copy the contacts?
Thanks

Open Outlook.
Go to File-Open-Outlook Data File and navigate to where you copied the file
to. (I hope you copied it to somewhere OTHER than the default location).
Open the Contacts folder, select them all, and just drag them to the
Contacts folder in the new version of Outlook.

HTH

 

[Guest]

Hi Gordon.

All sorted, thank you very much!!

H

Open Outlook.
Go to File-Open-Outlook Data File and navigate to where you copied the file
to. (I hope you copied it to somewhere OTHER than the default location).
Open the Contacts folder, select them all, and just drag them to the
Contacts folder in the new version of Outlook.

HTH

 

[Gordon]

Hi Gordon.

All sorted, thank you very much!!

YW!