Importing Outlook97 Address Book to Outlook 2000

[MISAdmin]

I was running Outlook97 and had a disk crash. I had my Personal Address book, and all the other files, backed up. I decided to use this opportunity to go to Outlook 2000. I figured I could create my Personal Address book in 2000, then substitute my old 97 .pst file for the one 2000 created... well... it didn't work. I'm thinking that Outlook 2000 won't read the format of the old file?

What can I do to import the Outlook97 Pewrsonal Address book into Outlook 2000?

 

[davidmunoz]

OutLook 2000 is backwards compatible and should allow you to IMPORT from the file menu your personal and archived files from 97 unless of course your archived files are corrupt; you should get an error message stating so though.

Hope this helps!

 

[MISAdmin]

Hmmm... I suppose that could be. I thought it was a compatibility issue because the icon for the file actually displays as the colored puzzle pieces, just like the current 2000 .pst file, but when I try and import it, I get a message stating the file xxxx is not a .pst file. But I know that it is...