Xfer Contacts/address new to old outlook

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First Off I am a hardware geek

now that that is out of the way

Problem Description:
Because of bing layd off, i put my "contacts" list onto a CD in hopes that i
could use those contacts on my home system (to drum up a new job). However I
get the error that

"Outlook cannot open this message, a newer version, such as Outlook 2003 or
later, is required to open this message.

It appears that the contact list is from a newer version of outlook than I
have here at home.

The outlook I have installed at home is:

2002 (10.6838.6845) sp3

However I typically use outlook express 6 6.00.2900.5512 (xpsp.080413-2105)

and would like to get the contact list from work into express.

Is there anyway to get this list, (Each file is a *.msg file) (or even open
them) into my home version of outlook, or express?

I do not have access to the outlook version that exists at my old
employment. I had assumed that a contact list from outlook would import into
outlook at home, and now it is preventing me from contacting possible job
contacts.

Because I assumed that outlook could talk to outlook, I did not print or
make written copies of these contacts.

Operating System: Windows XP
 
Since Outlook has no such thing as a "Contacts list" one must wonder exactly
what you put onto the CD, hardware geek. Do tell us. It would make it much
easier to figure out what you did wrong.
 
Outlook Express is a completely different program from Microsoft Office
Outlook.
Also, Outlook 2002 does not support Unicode formatted msg-files. That change
was first introduced in Outlook 2003.

What you can do is to install the trial version of Outlook 2007 so you can
open your saved msg-files and place them in Outlook. Then use the import
feature of OE to transfer them.
 
thnx, i will give it a try

Roady said:
Outlook Express is a completely different program from Microsoft Office
Outlook.
Also, Outlook 2002 does not support Unicode formatted msg-files. That change
was first introduced in Outlook 2003.

What you can do is to install the trial version of Outlook 2007 so you can
open your saved msg-files and place them in Outlook. Then use the import
feature of OE to transfer them.
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