Outlook is located on the same computer

Posted by Jonh Monday, June 8, 2009

In this Article OE, WM or WLM contains all your messages and is located on the same machine as Outlook. It is assumed that Outlook has already been installed and configured with your mail account. Contact your mail administrator or ISP if you do not know the mail account settings. If you've already tried to configure Outlook before but were not successful, you'll have to start with a clean mail profile.
Migrate Mail

Don't use the Import function from within Outlook to migrate your mail. In many cases this will reset the "Received" time and date on a message. Instead, use the export function from with OE, WM or WLM.

1. Open Outlook.
2. Open up OE, WM or WLM and use File-> Export-> Messages… to export the messages to Outlook.
Confirm the dialog and select which folder you would like to export to Outlook.
3. Now all you have to do is wait. This could take quite a while depending on how big your message store in OE, WM or WLM is.

Migrate Contacts

To migrate your contacts, you first have to export it to a csv-file which you can then import into Outlook.
The way to export it defers slightly depending on whether you are using OE, WM or WLM.

Export Contacts Outlook Express

1. File-> Export-> Address Book…
2. Select; Text File (Comma Separated Values).
3. Press the Export button.
4. Select a location to store the export in and name you export file.
This can be on your Desktop folder for easy access. You can remove the file once everything has been imported into Outlook.
5. Press the Next button.
6. Select all the fields (make sure you scroll down to see all fields)
7. Press Finish. You'll get notified when the export is done.
8. Close the remaining open dialogs and continue to the Import Contacts section.

Export Contacts Windows Mail

1. File-> Export-> Windows Contacts…
2. Select; CSV (Comma Separated Values).
3. Press the Export button.
4. Select a location to store the export in and name you export file.
This can be on your Desktop folder for easy access. You can remove the file once everything has been imported into Outlook.
5. Press the Next button.
6. Select all the fields (make sure you scroll down to see all fields).
7. Press Finish. You'll get notified when the export is done.
8. Close the remaining open dialogs and continue to the Import Contacts section.

Export Contacts Windows Live Mail

1. Select the Contacts button in the left bottom section or press CTRL+SHIFT+C to bring up the Windows Live Contacts window.
2. File-> Export-> Comma Separated Values (.CSV)
3. Select a location to store the export in and name you export file.
This can be on your Desktop folder for easy access. You can remove the file once everything has been imported into Outlook.
4. Press the Next button.
5. Select all the fields (make sure you scroll down to see all fields).
6. Press Finish. You'll get notified when the export is done.
7. Close the remaining open dialogs and continue to the Import Contacts section.

Import Contacts Outlook

1. File-> Import and Export…
2. Select; Import from another program or file.
3. Press the Next button.
4. Select; Comma Separated Values (Windows).
5. Press the Next button.
6. Browse to the location of the previously exported csv-file.
7. Press the Next button.
8. Select your Contacts folder as the destination folder.
9. Press the Next button.
10.Press Finish.

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