Re: Moving Microsoft Outlook to a new computer

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From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers_at_nospamcableone.net)
Date: 05/16/04 

Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 08:50:41 -0600

Greetings --

    Simply copy your *.pest (mailbox) and *.pub (address book) files
to the new machine, and then point them out to Outlook. Tools > Email
> Accounts > View or Change....

Bruce Chambers 

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"Dave W" <dwytmar@att.net> wrote in message 
news:E00DB7A7-5064-475A-8060-991B5CC2FA72@microsoft.com...
>I have just bought a new computer and I am trying to move all my 
>contact information in Microsoft Outlook from the old computer to the 
>new computer, but there does not seem to be an obvious way to do it. 
>I use XP Pro on both machines, When I try exporting, it only lets me 
>convert the file into another file format. I don't want to convert 
>the file, just copy it. I would have thought it would be easy. What 
>am I missing?
>
> Dave

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