Copy the individual items, not the folder. Using two windows, with the source window displaying a table view, would make this task easy.

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>I am using Microsoft Outlook 2003 and I need to transfer appointments from
> one public calendar to a second lateral public calendar.
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> - exporting public calendar data so that I could then import it. (public
> folders cannot be selected for exporting)