Complete Outlook 2007 backup and transfer guide

This guide can help you if you want to backup Outlook 2007 mail, contacts and others for safety purposes in case something happens to your computer. It can also be used if you want to transfer Outlook 2007 mail from one computer to another. It is not mandatory that the computers have the same operating systems and you can also move your stuff from a previous version of Outlook. As an example to this, let’s say that you have a computer running Windows XP with Microsoft Outlook 2003 and you want to transfer all emails, contacts, tasks and autocomplete information to another computer running Windows 7 and Outlook 2007. You can also use the information provided here if you want to reinstall Windows and keep Outlook 2007 emails. This guide will provide step by step instructions in order for you to succeed.

I will split this into 2 parts so that we can be as organized as possible. The first part involves getting the necessary files from the old computer or the computer you wish to backup. As a point of caution I advise you not to delete anything from the old computer until you are sure that you have everything on the new one.

Backup Outlook files from the old computer:

1. Export Outlook 2007 Mail and Addresses
2. Export Outlook 2007 AutoComplete
3. Export Outlook 2007 Rules and Alerts

Restore Outlook files into the new computer:

1. Import Outlook 2007 Mail and Addresses
2. Import Outlook 2007 AutoComplete
3. Import Outlook 2007 Rules and Alerts

Each of the links above will lead to articles previously written by me. The level of difficulty is quite low as everything is explained thoroughly.

Tags: autocomplete, contacts, export, import, mail, outlook 2007, rules, tasks

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