Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Solution Center

Import/Export

How to import the Address Book from Palm Desktop to Outlook
Describes how to use a comma-separated values file to export Address Book information from Palm Desktop and import the information into Outlook. Requires you to create headers for the CSV file before you import Contacts.csv into Outlook.
How to migrate your Lotus Notes contacts to Outlook 2003
Provides steps to import your Lotus Notes contacts into Outlook 2003.
How to import and export text data by using Outlook
This article describes how to use the Import and Export Wizard to import text data in Microsoft Outlook, and to export Outlook data to a text file. Using a text file is helpful when the converters provided with Outlook do not directly match the...

Description of the Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: March 11, 2005
Description of the issues fixed in the Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package that was released on March 11, 2005.
The Notes field is empty for some exported tasks in Outlook 2003
Describes the issue where when you export tasks from Outlook 2003, some of the Notes fields for those tasks are empty.
History or Opportunities are not exported from Business Contact Manager in Outlook
Explains that you can export information only from Accounts and from Business Contacts in Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager. You cannot export History or Opportunities from Business Contact Manager.

You cannot import or export e-mail accounts with .IAF files in Outlook
Explains that the feature that you can import and export your Internet Mail Account settings to an IAF format is not available in Outlook 2002 and Outlook 2003. Provides a workaround to import Internet Mail Accounts settings from the e-mail programs.
Error message when you try to import or to export files in Outlook: "Microsoft Outlook cannot start the required translator"
Describes an issue that occurs if certain translator files or certain database converters are not available because they were not installed during Setup. Provides a resolution.
You receive a "File access is denied" error message when you try to import a .pst file from a CD-ROM to Outlook folders
Describes an error message that you receive when you import a .pst file from a CD-ROM to Outlook folders in the Import and Export Wizard. To resolve the issue, copy the .pst file to a hard disk and cancel the read-only attribute on the .pst.