changing default calendar in 2003

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Holly - 19 Jan 2004 22:26 GMT

Installing FrontPage 2003 caused a problem in Outlook 2003 and Outlook had to be reinstalled. I did this over the phone with a Microsoft Tech Rep (only took us 3 hours). When we got the program back up and imported the .pst file, the calendar file showed up as a secondary calendar, not the primary default calendar. This means I get no alerts of events for the day when i have things scheduled.

Deleting the primary is not an option, says Outlook. Copying the calendar merely makes a 3rd calendar. Moving the calendar doesn't work at all. How do I import the secondary calendar into the default or change the settings so the data-filled calendar is the default and the blank is the secondary and can be deleted? The 'Office Online Help' is of no help. Thanks in advance.

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Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook] - 20 Jan 2004 04:41 GMT

You would need to move the items in the secondary calendar into the primary
calendar, rather than moving the whole folder. To do this, switch your
secondary calendar to the By Category view (which is unfiltered by default),
select all items using CTRL+A, and drag them to the primary Calendar folder.

Incidentally, it's a shame that many MS tech support folks haven't been
informed of this, but it's better to simply re-use your original .PST file
rather than import from it. Less gets lost that way. The import/export
function should ideally only be used when importing from or exporting to
another program or file type.

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> Installing FrontPage 2003 caused a problem in Outlook 2003 and
> Outlook had to be reinstalled. I did this over the phone with a
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> the blank is the secondary and can be deleted? The 'Office Online
> Help' is of no help. Thanks in advance.

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Holly - 20 Jan 2004 12:46 GMT

Thanks. That worked perfectly. :)

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