I've purchased a computer with Office 2000 installed and Windows XP. My old computer ran Office 98 and Windows 98. I've installed the hard drive from the old computer as a secondary drive in the new computer, so I have access to all the Office 98 files, including the outlook.pst file. How do I merge (keyword being "merge")the contacts and email folders from Office 98 into Office 2000 without losing the contacts and email folders I have already added to Office 2000? I know the outlook.pst file from Outlook 98 will work in Outlook 2000 because I copied it into the Windows XP directory (after renaming the Oulook 2000 .pst file) and all my original contacts and email folders came back, but of course the new contacts/folders added under Outlook 2000 were not there. I've since restored the Outlook 2000 .pst file. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Simple. First open Outlook 2000 (assuming that the new pst file is the default. Tehn from the menu select File<Open<Outlook Data File. Then navigate to your old PST file and open it. You will get a whole new folder tree for this file. You can then copy the email from the folders from the old PST into the new one. Don't know how it works with contacts if you need to copy those as well - just dig around a little. After you have copied over everything from the OLD PST file, right-click on the top level folder in the tree view within Outlook and there is an option to disconnect (or something like that) - so that it won't keep showing every time you start Outlook. Michael J

Thanks a ton! That worked great! And it also worked for the contacts!