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Reading Outlook pst files with another program
19-11-2008 9:02 AM
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Is there a method of converting or exporting them so that a standard email package will read them.
Alternatively do any of the other email programs read Outlook pst files
Re: Reading Outlook pst files with another program
19-11-2008 9:22 AM
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Re: Reading Outlook pst files with another program
19-11-2008 9:50 AM
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19-11-2008 10:14 AM
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If that is the case, and you want to stop using Outlook I recommend you use Thunderbird.
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Re: Reading Outlook pst files with another program
19-11-2008 4:17 PM
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Sorry not to have a happy endding but I would be inclined to disable your AV and obviously shut down outlook and come off line for the duration of the import.
Functionality wise Thunderbird seemed to do pretty much what I needed on the EMail front but dont think it had a calendar solution like outlook
good luck - might be a perilous journey though. I decided to stick with old outlook
Re: Reading Outlook pst files with another program
19-11-2008 4:24 PM
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Quote from: the but dont think it had a calendar solution like outlook
Oh yeah? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/2313
Quote Upgrade Thunderbird to a full Personal Information Manager with Lightning. It allows you to manage your daily schedule (events and tasks) directly within Thunderbird.
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19-11-2008 5:05 PM
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19-11-2008 5:15 PM
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Re: Reading Outlook pst files with another program
19-11-2008 11:05 PM
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20-11-2008 10:08 AM
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Actually I have bit the bullet and ordered a copy of Office 2003 student edition which gives effectively 6 installs which will cover the users in the family for the next few rebuilds. What I hadn't realised before is that an uninstall doesn't release a license.
(I wasn't going to touch Office 2007 at any price - what is even sillier is that Office 2007 won't work with Outlook 2003 so I couldn't even use the 2007 student edition as it doesn't include Outlook)
Re: Reading Outlook pst files with another program
20-11-2008 10:59 AM
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Quote from: Oldjim Office 2003 student edition which gives effectively 6 installs
Only 3 I believe.
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20-11-2008 11:13 AM
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20-11-2008 11:45 AM
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That is certainly what the EULA says but the standard EULA allows an activation on a desktop and a laptop assuming you are not using both at once.
Quote from: HPsauce Only 3 I believe.
The student license I am using at the moment ran out after 6 activations so it will be interesting to see what the new one does before I need to phone Microsoft
Either way it is much more flexible than an OEM version (best price is 3 x OEM = 1 x student and teacher)
This is the bit which I like in the EULA
Quote 13. SOFTWARE TRANSFER. Internal. You may transfer a copy of the Software to a different device. If following such transfer the Software would be installed on more than three (3) devices, you must completely remove the Software from the former device. .
Re: Reading Outlook pst files with another program
20-11-2008 3:16 PM
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Quote from: Oldjim (I wasn't going to touch Office 2007 at any price - what is even sillier is that Office 2007 won't work with Outlook 2003 so I couldn't even use the 2007 student edition as it doesn't include Outlook)
Hi Oldjim
I was considering getting the Home and Student version of Office 2007 (around £59 from Amazon) Is there are reason you wouldn't touch it?
John
Re: Reading Outlook pst files with another program
20-11-2008 3:47 PM
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Second - reading the reviews you have an effectively non customisable ribbon bar - I like my personalised toolbar and the menus which I understand
Here are some of the reviews from Amazon
Quote Microsoft takes a lot of stick, not all of it deserved. I for one quite liked windows 95 and 98 and indeed xp. I've also happily used the office range of programs for about 12 years and as a result I find them extremely simple to use. Vista annoyed me though, it's cumbersome, slow and has many utterly pointless additions and interface changes. Still, it happily ran office 2003 so I didn't mind too much. Sadly i lost my spare copy of 2003 when my laptop harddrive crashed, so I replaced it with this.
And that brings me here... it's late, I want to get a graph done of some consumption functions and I open excel to do so. But it's not excel as I know it. In order to justify yet another rerelease of what is essentially the same software as 2003 they've changed the interfaces, they've changed the menus, the names of tasks and even the way you tell excel what data to include in a graph. That goes for all the other office programs. For some reason they felt that it was a great idea to strip out the menu system which is common to every other major software program I can think of and replaced it with a 'ribbon' which has more pretty graphics. Maybe if you're an entirely new user this will make it easier, but i doubt it. If you're an existing user with a decent experience base they've just invalidated all that experience. I now know as much about MS office as I did when i was 13. I honestly wouldn't mind if I felt this was a great leap forward in the design of interfaces, but it's not, it's just more pretty icons and it'll probably be gone by the next edition.
Quote They attempt to fix it. The end result is an insanely unorthadox formatting system that rather than simplifing documents, makes life alot slower and frustrating; particularly when you're due to write an essay for University.
Why change the old layout of tabs and formatting tools? The new look/set-up may look cleaner and more modern in an attempt to look Mac-Like, but it fails because rather than simply choosing an option from a drop down menu, you have to traul through silly tabs on a new chunky bar above the document (for Word) while PowerPoint isn't even worth starting on...
Quote Just don't upgrade is all I can say.
Yes you can make PDF's easily. But there are 000's of websites that will do it for you for free anyway. And this, and this along with better colour schemes are about the only obvious "Pro" for this software.
Everything else, I mean everything is worse than Office 2003. I speak as an advanced user of Powerpoint and Excel. Things like pivot tables in Excel 2007 are far worse, editing charts is a nightmare (though of course you can choose far more colour schemes if you are that way inclined), and doing concise but detailed presentations that do not involve animations is very difficult.
And of course there is the whole challenge of a new menu structure, which takes weeks to relearn (and takes up more room on the screen, so worse for laptop users...)
The whole emphasis has been to make a suite of software that is great for High School students doing a project (e.g. fancy graphics etc), but for anyone with a more serious purpose in mind just don't make the transition. It is not worth it.
If you can still get the 30 day free trial from Microsoft I would recommend trying it first.
Quote If you are familiar with Excel 1997 or 2003, and are not a user Clicking on menus but use mostly shortcuts and menu undescores to surf through menus and submenus, Office 2007 will be a true nightmare: you will have to learn it all back again. To me, consultant, learning the new Word is such a enormous waste of time, that I unistalled it right away. For Excel, well, confronted with the limits of memory management in the previous version of Excel, I had no choice than to switch to Office 2007. The price is dear : what Excel does is basically unchanged, however, the way to do it, is completely modified. Microsoft has been so disregarding for its users' needs, that it quietly informs them, that all classic menus are gone, irrevocably : you will use their "Ribbon"!
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