Exporting Outlook Tasks - Backlevel conversion

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tireland3471

I am trying to import Tasks from Oulook 2003 (at work) to my home PC that is
running Office XP. When I first tried this, my home version said the .pst
file was not compatible. I have since researched this and found that Outlook
2003 is not backward compatible unless the file is setup as an Outlook
97-2000 .pst file (as Microsoft changed the .pst file for Unicode in Outlook
2003).

I setup a separate Task .pst file in my work Outlook 2003 system (in Outlook
97-2000 .pst format thru the Data Management function) and exported it from
Outlook 2003. I tried to import it, and again I got a message that the file
is not compatible.

Any assistance/direction would be greatly appreciated (and no, I don't want
to upgrade to Outlook 2003 at this time).
 
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Brian Tillman

tireland3471 said:
I am trying to import Tasks from Oulook 2003 (at work) to my home PC
that is running Office XP. When I first tried this, my home version
said the .pst file was not compatible. I have since researched this
and found that Outlook 2003 is not backward compatible unless the
file is setup as an Outlook 97-2000 .pst file (as Microsoft changed
the .pst file for Unicode in Outlook 2003).

I setup a separate Task .pst file in my work Outlook 2003 system (in
Outlook 97-2000 .pst format thru the Data Management function) and
exported it from Outlook 2003. I tried to import it, and again I got
a message that the file is not compatible.
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Create a new PST in the 97-2002 format. Right-click your Tasks folder and
choose "Copy Tasks". Select the new PST and click OK. This will place a
copy of your Tasks folder in the new PST. Right-click the new PST and
choose Close. Now close Outlook.

COPY the PST you created to whatever medium you wish to use to transfer the
PST. It can be a Zip drive, a CD, a thumb drive, and so on. If it's a
read-only medium like a CD, you must copy the PST back to your hard drive
and remove the read-only attribute.

Once the PST is on the other machine, start Outlook and click
File>Open>Outlook Data File. Browse to the PST, select it, and click OK.
You'll now have access to the Tasks folder it contains. Copy any of the
contents you wish to the Tasks folder in your current default PST. All
done.
 
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