how do I switch Outlook from my home computer to my laptop?

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Elaine A

We have a laptop in addition to our main computer. They are only
sporadically linked due to network problems.

We have Outlook 2003. How do I switch Outlook and all my data to my laptop?
I currently use my laptop 90% of the time and would like to have all my
features rather than using webmail etc.
 
V

VanguardLH

Elaine said:
We have a laptop in addition to our main computer. They are only
sporadically linked due to network problems.

We have Outlook 2003. How do I switch Outlook and all my data to my laptop?
I currently use my laptop 90% of the time and would like to have all my
features rather than using webmail etc.
Click to expand...

Did you get MS Office 2003 and install Outlook as a component of that
suite? Or did you purchase Outlook 2003 alone (i.e., not part of a
suite)? If your Outlook 2003 is part of the MS Office 2003 suite, are
you going to also move over all the other components of Office 2003
(Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, etc.) from the desktop to the laptop?
If you move a component of Office, you need to move it all. You can't
slice up its single license across multiple computers ... maybe. Read
the EULA for your Office product. I remember awhile back that Office
users were allowed to install it on a laptop as a secondary host but
only if it were not concurrently in use with the desktop (i.e., while
you are using Office on your laptop, your spouse cannot be using Office
on the desktop). The licenses are listed at:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/HA102103671033.aspx?pid=CL100796341033

I only looked at the license for Word, which said:

"Installation and use. You may: (a) install and use a copy of the
Software on one personal computer or other device; and user (b) install
an additional copy of the Software on a second, portable device for the
exclusive use of the primary of the first copy of the Software."

I think the license is pretty much the same for all the components. So
lug the Office install CD to your laptop and install a 2nd copy there.
Then copy your .pst file from your desktop to your laptop. I'd probably
just start Outlook on the laptop and have it create a default message
store. Then find out where it put that .pst file, exit Outlook, and
overwrite it with the .pst file copied from the desktop.
 
V

VanguardLH

Elaine said:
We have a laptop in addition to our main computer. They are only
sporadically linked due to network problems.

We have Outlook 2003. How do I switch Outlook and all my data to my laptop?
I currently use my laptop 90% of the time and would like to have all my
features rather than using webmail etc.
Click to expand...

You never mentioned WHAT type of e-mail accounts you use. If POP then
the default behavior is to yank a message and then delete it from the
server. If you want to see the message on both your desktop and laptop,
configure the POP account in Outlook to "leave message on server". Or
switch to using IMAP to have Outlook sync up with your e-mail account on
both your laptop and desktop so you see the same items in your account.
 
D

DL

In edition to the previous response, if Office is an OEM edition supplied
with your PC then its tied to the origonal PC & cannot be moved / installed
on your new PC
You need a retail edition in order to install on another PC
 
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Elaine A

Sorry I wasn't clear: we have full Office 2003 on both computers.

Once I set up our acct on the laptop how do I transfer all my contact,
calendar, existing e-mails etc to my acct on the laptop?

Elaine
 
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VanguardLH

Elaine said:
Elaine



Once I set up our acct on the laptop how do I transfer all my contact,
calendar, existing e-mails etc to my acct on the laptop?
Click to expand...

Copy the .pst file.

The PST file does not include the e-mail account definitions. You'll
need to recreate them. I don't know if Office 2003 comes with the Save
My Settngs wizard. If so, use it on the desktop to save the settings to
a file, copy the file to the laptop, and use the wizard again to restore
those settings on the laptop.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/287070/en-us

Rather than import (which can result in some lost items), just copy the
old .pst file over the new .pst file (created after you first start
Outlook) by the same name. Then when Outlook starts next time, it reads
that same-named .pst file which now has the old data in it.
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm

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After furious head scratching, Elaine A asked:

| Sorry I wasn't clear: we have full Office 2003 on both computers.
|
| Once I set up our acct on the laptop how do I transfer all my contact,
| calendar, existing e-mails etc to my acct on the laptop?
|
| Elaine
|
| "VanguardLH" wrote:
|
|| Elaine A wrote:
||
||| We have a laptop in addition to our main computer. They are only
||| sporadically linked due to network problems.
|||
||| We have Outlook 2003. How do I switch Outlook and all my data to
||| my laptop? I currently use my laptop 90% of the time and would like
||| to have all my features rather than using webmail etc.
||
|| Did you get MS Office 2003 and install Outlook as a component of that
|| suite? Or did you purchase Outlook 2003 alone (i.e., not part of a
|| suite)? If your Outlook 2003 is part of the MS Office 2003 suite,
|| are you going to also move over all the other components of Office
|| 2003 (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, etc.) from the desktop to the
|| laptop? If you move a component of Office, you need to move it all.
|| You can't slice up its single license across multiple computers ...
|| maybe. Read the EULA for your Office product. I remember awhile
|| back that Office users were allowed to install it on a laptop as a
|| secondary host but only if it were not concurrently in use with the
|| desktop (i.e., while you are using Office on your laptop, your
|| spouse cannot be using Office on the desktop). The licenses are
|| listed at:
||
||
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/HA102103671033.aspx?pid=CL100796341033
||
|| I only looked at the license for Word, which said:
||
|| "Installation and use. You may: (a) install and use a copy of the
|| Software on one personal computer or other device; and user (b)
|| install an additional copy of the Software on a second, portable
|| device for the exclusive use of the primary of the first copy of the
|| Software."
||
|| I think the license is pretty much the same for all the components.
|| So lug the Office install CD to your laptop and install a 2nd copy
|| there. Then copy your .pst file from your desktop to your laptop.
|| I'd probably just start Outlook on the laptop and have it create a
|| default message store. Then find out where it put that .pst file,
|| exit Outlook, and overwrite it with the .pst file copied from the
|| desktop.
 
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