Outlook 2003, 2 users same computer, share calendar?

[James R. Lunsford]

I recently installed Microsoft Office 2003, and upgraded myself from Outlook
Express, which I've been using happily for year now, and my wife uses in now
and likes it too. We've been using the Yahoo calendars to enter
appointments, events, birthdays, etc and it works out pretty well, it sends
reminders to my cell phone, e-mail address, and I can access it from pretty
much anywhere. Outlook 2003 includes a calendar that I can sync with my PDA
(haven't found a way that it can send a message to my cell phone...yet), so
it's almost as good, but I wonder if I upgrade her user account on XP from
O.E. to Outlook 2003, would we have access to each other's calendars? Would
she be able to schedule appointments, events, etc and I'd be able to access
those, and/or sync them to my PDA with my events? I looked all over google
and maybe I'm just not phrasing it right, but I got a lot of hits concerning
previous versions of Outlook needing to use an Exchange server and info
about *.pst files, but noting specifically for 2 people on the same computer
updating each other's calendars.

Also, does anyone know of a good site, besides MS, for tips, hints, and
tricks to using Outlook?

Thanks in advance for any and all help.

 

[Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]]

A good start for Outlook information is www.slipstick.com. One of the
articles there deals with people sharing Outlook on one PC and how they can
set up shared data files. See
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/olshare1.htm.

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MVP - Outlook

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[James R. Lunsford]

Thanks for the reply, I've looked at that article several times, and it
doesn't say anything, that I noticed, about sharing the calendar. Seems to
focus on the mail aspect of it.

Thanks again

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[Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]]

Sharing the calendar is the same concept as sharing mail...you would just
need to set up a third .PST file for the calendar data, then put that .PST
file in a common location so that each of you can access it.

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Thanks for the reply, I've looked at that article several times, and
it doesn't say anything, that I noticed, about sharing the calendar.
Seems to focus on the mail aspect of it.

Thanks again

Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]" <[email protected]> wrote in

message news:%[email protected]...

A good start for Outlook information is www.slipstick.com. One of
the articles there deals with people sharing Outlook on one PC and
how they can set up shared data files. See
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/olshare1.htm.

--
Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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