Hello Milly (again);

Sorry to bother you. I have a back-up of the contacts file in my external HD
called contacts.pst. I am able to open it, however how do I copy it to use as
the default file. These are all of the areas that seem to be blacked out. In
Vista, do I need to turn-on the user control (I had to turn it off to enable
back-up to the external drive)?
Thank You;
Ron R.

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

Yes, the Windows transfer does a lousy job with Outlook data. Copy your old .pst file from the old computer to the new. Put it in My Documents or a place that you regularly backup.

In Outlook, use File-Open-Outlook Data file and navigate to your copied .pst file. Open it and either use it as your default .pst file or copy the information you want from it to the new .pst file.

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After furious head scratching, asked:

| Got new Dell. Imported Outllook 2003 contacts to Outlook 2007 using
| Windows transfer utility that came with Dell. Contacts are visible but
| are not searchable, do not show up in pull down address list. If I
| open each contact and resave it, they are searchable, but I have too
| many contacts to do that one by one. Any suggestions?