Preserving Office XP Configuration on Upgrade to '03

I have Office XP Professional installed; if I just run setup for Office
2003 will it pick up all my settings/preferences ... including things like
my email accounts in Outlook ? or do I have to proceed some other way ?

Thanks ...

It should but to be on the safe side, backup your outlook.pst file.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Liz asked:

| I have Office XP Professional installed; if I just run setup for
| Office 2003 will it pick up all my settings/preferences ... including
| things like my email accounts in Outlook ? or do I have to proceed
| some other way ?
|
| Thanks ...

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
wrote in message ...
It should but to be on the safe side, backup your outlook.pst file.

Thanks for answering, Milly ... however, outlook.pst is not going to
preserve my email account information (servers, connections, userIDs,
passwords, etc) ... that's the kind of thing I'm trying to figure out if
Office 2003 is going to inspect, preserve and restore when it installs; I'm
also wondering if it will do the same for other preferences ... like default
document directory for Word, Excel ..

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Liz asked:

| I have Office XP Professional installed; if I just run setup for
| Office 2003 will it pick up all my settings/preferences ... including
| things like my email accounts in Outlook ? or do I have to proceed
| some other way ?
|
| Thanks ...

Outlook 2002 and 2003 do not have the ability to export your account
settings. You may want to set up Outlook Express and import the account
settings and then save them from OE. You can import them again into Outlook
once you are up and running.

--�
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Liz asked:

| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| wrote in message
| ...
|| It should but to be on the safe side, backup your outlook.pst file.
|
| Thanks for answering, Milly ... however, outlook.pst is not going to
| preserve my email account information (servers, connections, userIDs,
| passwords, etc) ... that's the kind of thing I'm trying to figure out
| if Office 2003 is going to inspect, preserve and restore when it
| installs; I'm also wondering if it will do the same for other
| preferences ... like default document directory for Word, Excel ..
|
|| After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Liz asked:
||
||| I have Office XP Professional installed; if I just run setup for
||| Office 2003 will it pick up all my settings/preferences ...
||| including things like my email accounts in Outlook ? or do I have
||| to proceed some other way ?
|||
||| Thanks ...