Russ,

I guess it could be a bad contact record. How does one run a repair of the
PST file?

David Hale

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Not a known issue. Sounds like a problem with one of the Contacts you copied
over. Have you tried repairing your PST file after you do the copying?
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"David Hale" wrote in message
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Russ,

I did just that and copied the contacts from the 2003 .pst into the
contacts
folder for the 2007 .pst and as soon as I did that the total Outlook 2007
software system slowed down to a crawl. I mentioned this in my original
comments below. I have no idea why this causes an issue and if I then
'delete' all copied contacts out of the 2007 Contact folder, Outlook
speeds
back up. I notice this problems especially when editing new messages but
the
system generally hangs overall.

David Hale

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Why do you have to "keep your old Outlook 2003 .pst around?" You should
simply copy the contents of its Contacts Folder into your new one. Then
you
can close your Outlook 2003 PST file from the profile.

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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"David Hale" wrote in message
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Russ,

I've found if I open my Outlook 2003 .pst file and then see two
Contacts
folder within Contact, the new default Contacts folder in 2007 and the
one
that is in my 2003 .pst and I then attemtp to 'drag and copy' my
contacts
from the 2003 Contacts folder into the default 2007 Contacts folder
Outlook
overall then slows to a crawl and especially when creating a new
message
my
type stalls and hangs. If I then delete the copied contacts from the
2007
Contacts folder the Outlook 2007 performance runs normally.

The problem is keeping my old 2003 .pst around simply to get to my
contacts
is a causes me to have to scroll to that contact list every time I need
to
find a contact when say looking for a contact when hitting TO: in a
message.

David Hale

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

You don't import Outlook data. You can simply use the same data file.
The file you need is your Personal Folders file (*.pst) It's where all
the
mail, calendar, contacts etc are stored.

Take a look at these pages for info on Outlook data backup or
transfer:
http://www.slipstick.com/config/backup.htm
http://www.howto-outlook.com/Howto/backupandrestore.htm
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...771141033.aspx


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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"bernie" wrote in message
...
Russ
How do I import contacts for outlook 2003 to outlook 2007?
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brw


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Did you have a question? Both versions use the same format. Nothing
to
convert.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"bernie" wrote in message
...
Convert contacts for Outlook for Office 2003 to Contacts for
Outlook
for
Office 2007--
brw