"Gösta Knochenhauer" wrote in message
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I have been using Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 to handle e-mail.´
I'm not interested in any of the other functions in Outlook.
I now have a new computer with Windows Vista.
On it, I've installed the home version of Office 2007, in which Outlook is
missing.
However, the standard program Windows Mail is quite enough for my needs.
But I have not found out if it is possible to import messages and address
book from Outlook.

It is.

You have two options. Either import mail and addresses to Outlook Express on
the old machine and do this:
Copy ALL the mail files from OE (including the one called Folders.dbx) and
paste them into a folder you have created on your new machine, to which you
have read/write permissions. A folder within your Documents folder would
seem to be the best place.
Then in Windows Mail, do File-Import-Messages, highlight Microsoft Outlook
Express, and click next.
Make sure that "Import from an OE6 Store directory is checked, (that's why
you need to copy the folders.dbx file, because that tells WM the folder is
an OE message store) and click on OK. Browse to the folder you created.

Or, install Outlook on the new machine (the trial version will do), transfer
your data from the old machine as he

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ou...771141033.aspx
http://www.slipstick.com/config/backup.htm
http://www.howto-outlook.com/Howto/backupandrestore.htm

and then within WM import.

HTH