Judy Gleeson (MVP Outlook) said:
The key to being able to select all and drag the contents of one Calendar
to
another is to put the Calendar in ANY table styled view. By Category is
ONE
of the available table style views.
BUT - if you had folowed Milly's giudance and changed the default data
store, you would not need to do that at all.
Regards
Judy Gleeson
MVP Outlook
Trainer and Consultant
There are various articles about using Outlook here:
www.judygleeson.com/articles.aspx
Canberra, Australia
"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each
other?"
George Eliot
Daun said:
:
Put your copied .pst file wherever you wish. then use the method I
described - File->Open->Outlook Data File. Then go to File->Data File
Management and change your default.
--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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After furious head scratching, Daun asked:
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Sigh - you never import a native Outlook data file. You simply
open
|| it as you would with any other Office program. File->Open->Outlook
|| Data File. You don't import Excel or Word files, do you? Why
would
|| you think it is necessary to import Outlook Data?
||
|| --Â
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
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|| reading.
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|| After furious head scratching, Daun asked:
||
||| I want to import my calendar from a PST from my old computer.
(just
||| got a new one). I would prefer to just use the calendar in the PST
||| file, since I can control it's location. Can't seem to get
Outlook
||| (2003) to accept my selection as my calendar, and would like to
get
||| rid of the default calendar. I cannot seem to be able to mass move
||| my appointments to the "standard" calendar either.
||
|
| Did you understand my question? I got a new computer... I needed to
| move everything to the new computer. I copied my PST files to the
| new computer, and all the information is there, but all my
| appointments (and contacts) are not in the "Outlook" Default
folders.
| They are in "Personal Folders" because Outlook won't let me change
| the default, nor copy the Appointments (I was able to mass copy the
| contacts, however). Outlook refuses to accept new appointments
unless
| I put them in the "default" calendar. Here is the text of the
Dialog
| that appears when I try to save it:
|
| The reminder for "appointment" will not appear because the item is
| not in your Calendar or tasks folder. Is this OK?
|
| NO, it isn't.
|
| BTW, I don't want all my Outlook files in the "Documents and
Settings"
| directories. I prefer to keep them in a separate data directory
that
| I can back up with my other data.
Well, after a bunch of Googling, I found the solution. You left out a
VERY
IMPORTANT detail in your response. You have to be in the "Category"
view
in
order to be able to do a Select All (Ctrl A) in both calendars. Then
You
can
copy and past "normally". The key is in putting the calendars in
category
view.
Daun
Thank you, Judy for a much nicer response. Actually, the Googling I
referred to was from YOUR website, where your post turned on the light!
I think the biggest part of the problem here was one of semantics. When I
said "importing", the process I used was to copy my PST files to my new
machine and then open them in Outlook. To me, this multiple step process
is
what I considered "importing". I had everything else working fine, and
could
actually open contacts and appointments, but they were separate folders,
not
the "real" folders that Outlook wants. I was looking for a way to do the
mass
cut and paste into the "proper" folders. As you so nicely indicated, all
that was needed was to get the view correct to allow this to happen. Once
that was accomplished it was a piece of cake.
Thanks again
Daun
