Thank you DL. I just spoke to microsoft about upgrading directly to Outlook
2007. My major problem in OE6 is I have thousands of emails. (too many for
that program, I assume) Whenever it compacts now, it copies my emails to the
recycle bin and causes an enormous amount of problems in general on my
computer(freezing, among others, not recognizing commands) So...........I was
told to use the outlook program instead. Hence it's Office 2002. I have xp
operating system and my cpu is only two years old. I also cannot create
shortcuts to my desktop anymore from the web.............probably unrelated.

I've even tried to let future emails go directly into Outlook 2002. I set
Internet Options, Internet Programs (email) to Outlook. It ignores it and
continues to send from oe6.

As I don't really recall how to do all this import and export of dbx and pst
files, I figured if I bought 2007 outlook or office, they could talk me
through it. Again, I see outlook 2007 has its own issues. I'm not sure what
else to do.

"DL" wrote:

You export your msgs OE to OL (I assume OL is setup on your PC)
You can then within OL Import your account settings and addresses
Once OL is set up stop using OE, or delete the accounts, as if you open OE
it will receive your mail

OL2002 is out of support lifecycle, the OL2002 data file has a 2gb size
limitation though problems can occur above 1.6gb
OL2003 and above, using the new unicode format data file does not have this
size limitation
OL2007 is the latest version

In OL use the Archive option, you can create mutiple Archives, ag
Archive2005, Archive2006 etc and if you require have them all open within OL
NB if you use OL2002 and then update to 2003 or 2007 there are some further
hoops to go through

"soreub" wrote in message
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I have way too many emails in oe6. I need to transfer all my emails and
use
Microsoft Outlook 2002 as my email client. I don't know how to do this.
Every time it asks to compact messages, it puts copies of my emails in the
recycle bin. I am also missing all my sent messages from the year 2006.

Also should I update Microsoft Office 2002 to Outlook 2003?

Help.