Any Unicode characters will get lost. Other than that, there won't be any
negative effects. Even dragging ANSI msg-files into a Unicode formatted
pst-file works without issues.

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"Jack B. Pollack" wrote in message
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That's AWESOME!
What are the negative ramifications of saving in ANSI?

Thanks

"Roady [MVP]" t wrote
in message ...
You can change the default for dragging and dropping from Unicode to ANSI
via;
Tools- Options- tab Other- button Advanced Options- disable: Use
Unicode Message Format when saving messages

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"Jack B. Pollack" wrote in message
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My desktop computer is running Outlook 2000. My previous laptop also
had Outlook 2K.
I used to be able to drag messages, contacts etc to a shared network
drive and then into the other copy of Outlook.

My new laptop has Outlook 2003. I am able to drag Outlook 2K items to
the laptop but cant go in the other direction (OL 2003 to OL 2000). I
tried saving the items into a new PST file but OL2K wont read the 2003
PST either. I know that I can export contacts, but then I loose the
groups.

Any suggestions for a quick way to move (copy) data between OL2K3 and
OL2K and then back in the other direction?

Thanks