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Shawn Boals - 31 Mar 2006 04:47 GMT

My girlfriend and I have been using MS Outlook Express for many years.
Recently, we upgraded to Office XP Pro, to get powerpoint, access etc. I've
had MS Outlook Express setup with 2 different "identities", one with her
email account, her address book, and her folders. The other with my email
accounts, my address book, and my folders. Both totally separate, no sharing
contacts or anything.
I setup two different "user profiles" in Outlook 2002. I import all her
addresses, email acount, and folders. Everything is fine, at least with her
profile. I try to import my addresses, email accounts and folders into my
profile, and it pulls her information into my profile and not my own from my
MS Outlook express "identity".

Is there anything I can do about this, so I can import my own "identity" and
not hers?

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Shawn Boals
Somewhere, PA

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Brian Tillman - 31 Mar 2006 14:46 GMT

> My girlfriend and I have been using MS Outlook Express for many years.
> Recently, we upgraded to Office XP Pro, to get powerpoint, access
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> and folders into my profile, and it pulls her information into my
> profile and not my own from my MS Outlook express "identity".

I believe Outlook will import only from OE's main identity. Since you have
the other data already in, swap identities in OE so that your data is now in
the main identity.

Also, when transferring messages, export them from OE instead of import them
from Outlook. The former will preserve the message dates. The latter will
change them to match the date of import.

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Shawn Boals - 01 Apr 2006 10:09 GMT

Thank you very much, Brian. That seemed to do the trick.

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Shawn Boals
Somewhere, PA

> > My girlfriend and I have been using MS Outlook Express for many years.
> > Recently, we upgraded to Office XP Pro, to get powerpoint, access
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> from Outlook. The former will preserve the message dates. The latter will
> change them to match the date of import.

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