Office 2003

[Tregrad]

I just bought a new pc and put Office 03 on it. I need to put all my info from the old pc into the new one, which brings me to the reason for my post.

do I just drag the old office data file into the new office folder and overwrite the new one or how do i do it?

Thanks in advance

[Dark Nova]

overwrite what??, be specific in your question. all you need to do is drag the old data to your new HD the old DATA will automaticly put it as default for word 2003 or whatknot

[Tregrad]

I was just doing my best at trying to fix it myself. I dont know quite how to do it but I tried to give it my best shot.

so, what you are saying is that I just drag it to my new hard drive (anywhere?) desktop or just anywhere and office will find it and put it in the aplication data folder automatically?
Sorry if im not explaining stuff correctly but I dont really know "exactly" what to do.

Thanks for your help Nova

[Dark Nova]

oh now i understand. no youll have to transfer it, but you can put your old HD data even on the desktop and then transfer your files manualy

[freakitchen]

Are we talking simply documents here? If so, just transfer to anywhere on the new system.

If we're talking an Outlook data file (your emails, account settings etc), then you'll need to export the data to a .pst file.

Freakitchen

[Tregrad]

ok, I have put the old hard drive in the new pc so I have direct access to the old data file, how do I put the old data file into the new outlook. I just need to know how to transfer it and where to transfer it to.
I think were making progress LOL, kinda hard to understand a tile contractor whos trying to explain computer stuff eh? lol.
Please be specific on "how" to do it.

[glc]

Use the import wizard, that's what it's for.

[Tregrad]

Yeah, sure, go ahead and make sence why dont you, LOL

[glc]

From the Outlook help file:

On the File menu, click Import and Export.
Click Import from another program or file, and then click Next.
Click Personal Folder File (.pst), and then click Next.
In the File to import box, specify the path and file name of the Office Outlook Personal Folders file (.pst) created with Outlook 2003 that you want to import, and then click Next.
Click Import items into the same folder in and then click the name of your new .pst file.
Follow the remaining instructions in the Import and Export Wizard.


Note - the default name for your personal folders file is outlook.pst. If you have been archiving messages, you may want to import the archive.pst file also.