hi all,
Have just purchased a laptop and have installed office. I now need to transfer my outlook settings from the desktop to the laptop. I can easily do contacts but I have lots of folders and sub folders configured. Is it possible to transfer this structure to the laptop?

desktop is windows XP
laptop is Vista

regards

Alan

I don't have it in front of me, but from what I remember you use the import wizard and point it at your old outlook.pst file. The entire folder structure is in that one file.

Here's the "official" version:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/287070

Also you can just copy the pst file over and use file open in outlook

"File", "Import and Export", "Export to a File", select ".pst", then click on "personal folders" at the top of the tree and check "include subfolders".

This will give you a file with everything in it. Then other Outlook, file, import and export and import the .pst you created.

hi,
thanks for the tips. I will try this later today after work and let you know what happens.

regards

Alan

Just bear in mind that your PST can be a fairly big size depending on the content. I've seen 10GB+ from some of the lazy users at work who refuse to delete anything.

pst's corrupt over 2GB

Are you downloading mail via IMAP, or POP? If it's IMAP the folders might be stored on the server (depending on how you set them up), so just configuring the account might download everything...

Thats ANSI format pst

Unicode ones are upto 20GB

I know you used to be able to tell outlook to allow for large file ( if pst went over 1 Gb to stop corruption ), but I've not come across this unicode one before. Where is the setting to to it to be unicode as opposed to ANSI.

It's set to unicode by default in 2003 & higher. Still find they corrupt over 2GB (which is a pain when EXmerging)

I believe its the default for Office2003 and higher. Anything before was ANSI. You can create a PST in 2003 and save it as ANSI though, just not the other way around.

hi,
latst update, could not get office proffessional outlook to work in VISTA so have decided to look the the all new windows email

it looks ok and I have imported all contacts etc into this email

the only thing I can't seem to get is the contacts as an entry into the local folders view. Does anyone know if this is possible and if so how.

regards

Alan

What version of Outlook?

I've run 2003 & 2007 fine in Vista

2000

word, excel etc all install fine it is just outlook that is the issue