Are you switching back to Outlook 2007 after trying out Office 2010 beta?
Heres how you’re able to restore your Outlook data and keep everything working fine after the switch.
If you installed Outlook 2010 beta, it automatically imported and converted your profile from Outlook 2007.
If you choose to reinstall Office 2007, you may notice an warning pop-up each time you open Outlook.
First, double-check your Outlook data files are backed up.
Your messages, contacts, calendar, and more are stored in a .pst file in your appdata folder.
Its name is usually your email address, though it may have a different name.
Now, lets remove your old profile.
Open Control Panel, and select Mail.
In Windows Vista or 7, simply enter Mail in the search box and choose the first entry.
smack the Show Profiles… button.
Now, select your Outlook profile, and click Remove.
This will not delete your data files, but will remove them from Outlook.
Press Yes to confirm that you wish to remove this profile.
Open Outlook, and you will be asked to create a new profile.
Outlook will attempt to automatically configure your account parameters.
Press finish when everythings done.
Outlook will now go ahead and download messages from your email account.
In our test, we used a Gmail account that still had all of our old messages online.
snag the Send/Receive button on the bottom of the window, and select Cancel Send/Receive.
Restore Your Old Outlook DataLets add our old Outlook file back to Outlook 2007.
Exit Outlook, and then go back to Control Panel, and select Mail as above.
This time, opt for Data Files button.
smack the Add button on the top left.
Press Ok at the next dialog to accept the default configs.
Now, grab the data file we just imported, and click Set as Default.
Click Ok, and then open Outlook to see the change.
All of the data that was in Outlook 2010 is now ready to use in Outlook 2007.
And when you open Outlook, you wont see any error messages, either!
