Installing Office 2003 with Office XP already installed.

[Guest]

My main question is, what is the BEST way to migrate my outlook.pst and
archive.pst files from Outlook XP to Outlook 2003? I've heard may opinions on
this subject. Some say to import from XP pst to the 2003 pst. Others have
said to rename new outlook.pst from 2003 to another name and copy XP
outlook.pst into that location. So, if any Outlook expert could point me in
the right direction, it would be greastly appreciated. I would like to keep
all my settings, folders and all my data from Outlook XP. Thanks in advance
for you help...

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

If this is all on the same machine, you don't need to do anything except run the Office setup program.

 

[Guest]

Yes, this is on the same machine. So, when I insert the Office 2003 CD for
install, and it installs Outlook, it will migrate my data into the new 2003
format?

Another note, should I un-install Office XP before I install 2003 or wait
and un-install at a later date?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

No, it doesn't do anything to your data at all. The same mail profiles are available and will work just as they did in Outlook 2002. I thought that's what you wanted.

You can decide what to do about the old versions of Office programs (other than Outlook) as part of the installation. Unless you know you have a need to keep them, you can go ahead and remove them.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
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Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
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