Outlook / MS Office upgrade and data transfer question...

[trtroska]

I am looking at upgrading from MS Office Professional 2003 applications to MS
Office Small Business 2007. My biggest concern is the transfer of
information in my Outlook during this upgrade. I have a great many
Categories, custom color codes for the calendar, and a great number of
individual Folders where I file copies of client and vendor communications.
The last time I did an upgrade I saved, what I thought was EVERYTHING within
Outlook to a .pst file on my hard drive (which I was told was copied
completely), and then tried reloading them to the upgraded version. During
that time my contacts transferred, but not their categories and I had to
recategorize everyone and refill their personal information within the
"business cards" in that database. Most of my calendar dates/appointments
transferred, but again the color coding was all askew and not every
appointment transferred. My tasks did not transfer. My favorites transferred
but I had to recatorgize. And... NONE of my folders transferred. As I've now
almost doubled the amount of information within each of these areas, and with
the upgrade telling me I need to completely uninstall Outlook 2003 in order
to install 2007, I'm extremely afraid I'm going to lose a lot of sensitive
information.
Any suggestions, or reassurances???

 

[DL]

Are you upgrading from an Office CD?
If so you would be given the option to upgrade your existing installation,
OL will then connect to your current data.
You should in anycase have backups of data, MS has a free OL backup addin.
If you used the wrong method to 'copy' your OL data & the wrong method to
recconnect it, you will have lost data & various settings.
Uninstalling OL has no impact on its data file