exporting categories to prior Outlook versions

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Ed Sybesma

I can retrieve categories listings from the registry, but
cannot use the registry listing to import categories
listings into a prior version of Outlook (version 9) even
after changing the .reg file to reflect the location in
version 9 instead of under version 11.

Is there an incompatibility between versions or some other
editing necessary to transfer categories from Outlook 2003
to earlier versions?

Thanks in advance.

Ed
 
Outlook 2003 uses Unicode for its master category list in the registry. You
will not be able to export it and import it for Outlook 2000. It should work
in the other direction, however.
 
Sue,

Thank you very much for your response. I take it from
your response that there is no workaround for this
problem, but if that is wrong, please do let me know any
possible workaround.

Thanks again.

Ed
 
Only by writing code that reads the Unicode Categories and strips out
every other character in the byte array (which would be 0x00) to
convert the text to ANSI which then could be written to the correct
registry key for earlier versions of Outlook.

http://www.cdolive.com/cdo5.htm#ReadMasterCategories has a CDO code
sample that shows how to read the Unicode categories in for Outlook
2002.
 
Sue

How do you import Outlook master category list from 2000 into 2003? I imported the .pst file but the newer Outlook does not contain my old catergories

Dick Robinson
 
The master category list is not in the .pst file. It's in the registry. See
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/olcat.htm
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers



Dick Robinson said:
Sue,

How do you import Outlook master category list from 2000 into 2003? I
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imported the .pst file but the newer Outlook does not contain my old
catergories.
 
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