I need to move contact from Outlook 2003 to Outlook XP Help?

I just got a new laptop with Windows Vista. I also got Microsoft Office XP
for it and I am trying to move my contacts from the old desktop to the lap
top. How is the best way to do it. I tried to back them up to a .pst file
and it told me I could not open it as it was an incorrect version.

Thanks for your help.

Transam388
Mon Mar 24 09:51:02 PDT 2008

See if you can export your contacts to an Excel file by highlighting the
contacts then choose File, Import / Export and select export to an Excel 2003
file. Once exported put that file onto your new system and use the same
Import / Export except import and selct the new Contacts folder.

"Dennis" wrote:

> I just got a new laptop with Windows Vista. I also got Microsoft Office XP
> for it and I am trying to move my contacts from the old desktop to the lap
> top. How is the best way to do it. I tried to back them up to a .pst file
> and it told me I could not open it as it was an incorrect version.
>
> Thanks for your help.

Brian
Mon Mar 24 12:15:59 PDT 2008

Dennis <Dennis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> I just got a new laptop with Windows Vista. I also got Microsoft
> Office XP for it and I am trying to move my contacts from the old
> desktop to the lap top. How is the best way to do it. I tried to
> back them up to a .pst file and it told me I could not open it as it
> was an incorrect version.

Ignore anyone who says "export". See this:
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/downgradefromoutlook2003.htm
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

Brian
Mon Mar 24 12:16:14 PDT 2008

Transam388 <Transam388@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> See if you can export your contacts to an Excel file by highlighting
> the contacts then choose File, Import / Export and select export to
> an Excel 2003 file.

Bad advice.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

Diane
Mon Mar 24 21:19:36 PDT 2008

Did you really g et Outlook XP aka 2002? It doesn't work well with vista.

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"Dennis" <Dennis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7204B274-2A21-453F-BC6E-1823CE72D7A9@microsoft.com...
> I just got a new laptop with Windows Vista. I also got Microsoft Office
> XP
> for it and I am trying to move my contacts from the old desktop to the lap
> top. How is the best way to do it. I tried to back them up to a .pst
> file
> and it told me I could not open it as it was an incorrect version.
>
> Thanks for your help.