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"Sam" wrote in message
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I recently bought MS Office 2007. I enjoy the GUI of Outlook 2007 and
the search feature. I am concerned with my emails and backing them up.
You see, I often backup with real ease my email directory in OE and this
is great when transferring between my laptop and PC or just backing up
my email in general. I just go the preselected directory and copy
everything. No compatibility issues at all because OE is so old now.

I have some questions regarding Outlook 2007 and OE.

1. I was wondering how difficult is to backup Outlook 2007's emails?

Quite easily, make a copy of Outlook's .PST file with Outlook closed.

2. Is the file/folders/rules easily restored or imported by OE? What
about duplicate email entries?

Restoring to Outlook is as easy as opening the backup file with
'File|Open|Outlook Data File' and dragging and dropping whatever you need
from backup to default. You can import messages and contacts with OE, but
not rules.

When I first installed Outlook, it imported all my emal from OE. Since
then, I am only using Outlook to search for older emails and I havne't
updated or imported my email from OE.

If you've only used Outlook since, there's nothing to update or import from
OE. If you've been using OE for new email work and only using Outlook for
searching old email, why? Just use Outlook for everything. Seems silly to
me to use Outlook just to search old email, OE has a good search feature.

3. Is there a way to update Outlook and to avoid duplicate entries from
OE?

No, every time you export a folder from OE, the whole folder exports and you
get duplicates.

Thanks