Moving from Outlook XP/2002 to Outlook 2007

[JM7]

I am a bit puzzled about using Outlook 2007. In 2002 it was all stored in
the .PST files. in 2007 what is the file suffix?

It appears you can't just use the old .PST file in the OUTLOOK folder.

Do I have to import and export each one of my mail, notes folders, etc from
2002 to 2007?

thanks in advance

 

[Diane Poremsky {MVP}]

its still a pst and while you can use the one from outlook 2002, we highly
recommend letting outlook make a new one.
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ansi-to-unicode.asp









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[Mike Awford]

When is an upgrade a downgrade - answer is when you change from Outlook 2000
to 2007. Apart from it requiring a whole new learning curve to do with
difficulty what was easy in 2000, my main objection is that it was possible
to drag and drop subject head grouped emails within the same folder, the
dragged email then adopted the subject head of the dragee subject group. i.e.
I used to have a general Jobs Email folder containing all current job emails
normally grouped by job address. If a client sent me an email subject headed
"About our meeting" which belonged in the "Buckingham Palace" subject group
all I had to do was drag it into the right group (conversation field retained
the original subject head). 2007 does not allow this, so either I have to
open an email with the correct subject and paste it into the new email, which
is a chore, or I have to create a sub-folder for that job and drag into that
folder. OK, on the face of it that doesn't sound too difficult, until I tell
you that I may have over 100 cirrent jobs, which overcrowds the navigation
pane.

I took this up with technical support, who confirmed it was a programme
design change, and there was nothing they could do about it.

I'd go back to Outlook 2000 but for the fact that I only upgraded because my
AVG anti-spam software couldn't integrate with 2000.