Outlook Express to Microsoft Outlook92984

I needed a phone call from your friend the other day as she had made a decision to stop using Outlook Express on her behalf Windows XP and commence using Microsoft Outlook. One of the main reasons for this was to utilise the Calendar and reminders which are features of Microsoft Outlook. Pretty simple task she thought, however, if I reminded her about the have to transfer her messages and contacts, it changed her mind and he or she considered sticking to Outlook Express. Well as it ended up, it was an action that would have to be planned, but was quite easy. Firstly, what we did was throw open OE (Outlook Express) and from the File menu tab, select Export and then Messages. This could allow us export all of her current email, an assortment of messages in her own Inbox as well as hundreds which had been filed away in folders for future reference. Well, once we clicked on Export then Messages, Outlook Express prompted us the process would automatically export the messages to Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Exchange. Sweet, exactly what we wanted!

The next phase would have been to export out all her contacts so that they could possibly be utilized in Microsoft Outlook and save all the time keying back in those email addresses of friends, family and business acquaintances. Again, it turned into a simple task of deciding on Export from the File menu tab in Outlook Express, however this time selecting Address Book as an alternative to messages. This mentioned the Address Book Export Tool. Now this brought us with a sudden halt even as we were prompted with two export options. One ended up being to export to an Exchange Personal Address Book as well as the second to a Text File (comma separated values - CSV). Without having Exchange available we selected the next option, closed our eyes thus hitting the Export button. We were prompted for the spot to save the exported CSV, and chose to save it on the Desktop and called it addresses.csv Could everything be that simple and self-explanatory? Now all we would have liked to do was open Microsoft Outlook and discover what else must be completed. So it is precisely what happened, opened Microsoft Outlook and voila, all the messages have been imported into Microsoft Outlook. To make sure we will send and receive email in Microsoft Outlook, additionally we required to go and hang the email account details within the Tools menu tab. Even as we had Microsoft 'office' 2007 installed, we selected Account Settings from the Tools menu tab and proceeded to produce a new email account from instructions furnished by her email company. The majority of the details we would have liked may be purchased from back checking the settings within the old Outlook Express program under Tools, Accounts and Mail. These included her name, email, incoming and outgoing servers and her email password. Even as we tested sending an e-mail into a friend, i was reminded that we hadn't imported inside the contacts from Outlook Express Login. Therefore we looked around and discovered around the File menu tab Import and Export that gave us a variety of actions to execute. The best option was Import from another program or file, so it is precisely what we clicked and that we were prompted to choose a file type. Now both of us remembered we had exported the contacts within a comma separated value file or CSV file, so proceeded to scroll through the set of options and found what appeared as if a best match, Comma Separated Values (Windows). Then it prompted to get a file and now we browsed for the Desktop and discovered the addresses.csv file created only minutes before, selected to import into the Contacts folder and waited. Only seconds later it completed and that we then engaged the Contacts in the navigation pane and may see all of her contacts from Outlook Express.