I need to move contact from Outlook 2003 to Outlook XP Help?

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Dennis - 24 Mar 2008 17:47 GMT

I just got a new laptop with Windows Vista. I also got Microsoft Office XP
for it and I am trying to move my contacts from the old desktop to the lap
top. How is the best way to do it. I tried to back them up to a .pst file
and it told me I could not open it as it was an incorrect version.

Thanks for your help.

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Transam388 - 24 Mar 2008 17:51 GMT

See if you can export your contacts to an Excel file by highlighting the
contacts then choose File, Import / Export and select export to an Excel 2003
file. Once exported put that file onto your new system and use the same
Import / Export except import and selct the new Contacts folder.

> I just got a new laptop with Windows Vista. I also got Microsoft Office XP
> for it and I am trying to move my contacts from the old desktop to the lap
> top. How is the best way to do it. I tried to back them up to a .pst file
> and it told me I could not open it as it was an incorrect version.
>
> Thanks for your help.

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Brian Tillman - 24 Mar 2008 20:16 GMT

> See if you can export your contacts to an Excel file by highlighting
> the contacts then choose File, Import / Export and select export to
> an Excel 2003 file.

Bad advice.

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Brian Tillman - 24 Mar 2008 20:15 GMT

> I just got a new laptop with Windows Vista. I also got Microsoft
> Office XP for it and I am trying to move my contacts from the old
> desktop to the lap top. How is the best way to do it. I tried to
> back them up to a .pst file and it told me I could not open it as it
> was an incorrect version.

Ignore anyone who says "export". See this:
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/downgradefromoutlook2003.htm

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Diane Poremsky {MVP} - 25 Mar 2008 05:19 GMT

Did you really g et Outlook XP aka 2002? It doesn't work well with vista.

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> I just got a new laptop with Windows Vista. I also got Microsoft Office
> XP
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> Thanks for your help.

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