Repair/Reinstall (?) MS Office Pro 2000

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Bipsy

I've grossly misused Outlook (more than 6500 emails in Inbox with folders
and sub-folders and sub-sub-folders, thousands more in Sent, hundreds in
Drafts, hundreds of Contacts, and on and on --- a real mess) and now I can't
use Outlook. Freezes.

Using the Export/Import tool, I've stored back-ups of all my emails,
contacts, etc. in files in a folder. But I still can't delete anything in
Outlook to begin cleaning it out. Freezes.

I've been told that I probably need to repair/reinstall Office Pro 2000 so I
can clean out my current Outlook and start all over.

My questions:
1) Can I "repair" just Outlook alone using "Add/Remove" in "My Computer"?
2) Should I "reinstall" the entire Office Pro 2000? And if so, do I need
to "uninstall" the current Office Pro 2000 before I reinstall?
3) Any suggestions for a better way to handle this? I've been fighting
with this Outlook problem for 2 weeks now. I'm handling emails through my
ISP webpage. Challenging, it is!

Thank you.
 
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DL

A reinstall is unlikely to help, as it has no impact on your data files.
Exporting to a pst file is not reccommended either.
If you use export, use it only to export to another file format, eg Excel,
csv etc
BTW If OL freezes how did you export?

What is the size of your pst?
If below 2gb try running the repair tool scanpst.exe on it, over several
passes
It maybe that your pst is oversize and has thus become corrupted

If you are able create a new OL pst File (File>New>Personal Folders) and
copy a batch of data to the new pst
Next time use the archive feature
 
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