how do i import outlook 2000 to office 2007?

My old computer with Windows 2000, amd Office 2000 crashed and died. I did
have a backup to disc of my outlook 2000. I now have a new pc, with XP, and
Office 2007. I am trying to transfer my contacts from the old file to the
new. I don't know how. Whenever I try to open file. a message came up
saying "you are attempting to open a file of type Microsoft Office Outlook
Personal Folders (.pst)" it goes on to say that opening them could damge my
system. I then messed up, and somehow got to the stage where I changed the
"open with" option to Outlook manually, and now the error message reads: "the
command line arguement is not valid, verify the switch you are using". Can
someone please help...I am getting mired in a mess here!

Milly
Sat May 10 13:55:19 PDT 2008

In Outlook, File->Open->Outlook Data File. You never import native =
Outlook data.

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After furious head scratching, Messed up Marty asked:

| My old computer with Windows 2000, amd Office 2000 crashed and died.=20
| I did have a backup to disc of my outlook 2000. I now have a new pc,
| with XP, and Office 2007. I am trying to transfer my contacts from
| the old file to the new. I don't know how. Whenever I try to open
| file. a message came up saying "you are attempting to open a file of
| type Microsoft Office Outlook Personal Folders (.pst)" it goes on to
| say that opening them could damge my system. I then messed up, and
| somehow got to the stage where I changed the "open with" option to
| Outlook manually, and now the error message reads: "the command line
| arguement is not valid, verify the switch you are using". Can
| someone please help...I am getting mired in a mess here!

MessedupMarty
Sat May 10 14:35:00 PDT 2008

Yes, I tried that also...after reading some of the posts on here, but the
message came up saying: "file access is denied. you do not have the
permission required to access the file...(file path/name).pst"



"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

> In Outlook, File->Open->Outlook Data File. You never import native Outlook data.
>
> --Â?
> Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
>
> Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
> unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
> reading.
>
> After furious head scratching, Messed up Marty asked:
>
> | My old computer with Windows 2000, amd Office 2000 crashed and died.
> | I did have a backup to disc of my outlook 2000. I now have a new pc,
> | with XP, and Office 2007. I am trying to transfer my contacts from
> | the old file to the new. I don't know how. Whenever I try to open
> | file. a message came up saying "you are attempting to open a file of
> | type Microsoft Office Outlook Personal Folders (.pst)" it goes on to
> | say that opening them could damge my system. I then messed up, and
> | somehow got to the stage where I changed the "open with" option to
> | Outlook manually, and now the error message reads: "the command line
> | arguement is not valid, verify the switch you are using". Can
> | someone please help...I am getting mired in a mess here!
>

Roady
Sat May 10 15:04:40 PDT 2008

Probably because you didn't copy the pst-file to your hard disk first and/or
not removed the Read Only file attribute.

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"Messed up Marty" <MessedupMarty@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:177A64D7-A302-44C9-A444-482E79A5C2D3@microsoft.com...
> Yes, I tried that also...after reading some of the posts on here, but the
> message came up saying: "file access is denied. you do not have the
> permission required to access the file...(file path/name).pst"
>
>
>
> "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
>
>> In Outlook, File->Open->Outlook Data File. You never import native
>> Outlook data.
>>
>> --Â?
>> Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
>>
>> Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
>> unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
>> reading.
>>
>> After furious head scratching, Messed up Marty asked:
>>
>> | My old computer with Windows 2000, amd Office 2000 crashed and died.
>> | I did have a backup to disc of my outlook 2000. I now have a new pc,
>> | with XP, and Office 2007. I am trying to transfer my contacts from
>> | the old file to the new. I don't know how. Whenever I try to open
>> | file. a message came up saying "you are attempting to open a file of
>> | type Microsoft Office Outlook Personal Folders (.pst)" it goes on to
>> | say that opening them could damge my system. I then messed up, and
>> | somehow got to the stage where I changed the "open with" option to
>> | Outlook manually, and now the error message reads: "the command line
>> | arguement is not valid, verify the switch you are using". Can
>> | someone please help...I am getting mired in a mess here!
>>