Importing to and Exporting items from Microsoft Outlook Express, Windows Mail

Importing items into Outlook Express

You can easily import items from other programs into Outlook Express. These items include:

• Address books: From Microsoft products and other products, such as Netscape Communicator and Eudora. You can also import address book data that uses the comma separated values (CSV) format.
• Messages from other e-mail programs: Including Netscape and Eudora. You can also import messages from many Microsoft products, such as Outlook or older versions of Outlook Express.
• E-mail account settings: From an existing e-mail account. When you import your e-mail account settings, your Outlook Express account will have many, if not all, of the customization and information details from your previous account.
• Newsgroup account settings: From an existing e-mail account. When you import your newsroup account settings into Outlook Express, your subscription records and other data, such as which messages you've seen, is placed into your Outlook Express newsgroup account. You can immediately pick up reading your newsgroups.

To import address books

You can import address book contacts from other Windows Address Book files (.wab), as well as from Netscape Communicator, Microsoft Exchange Personal Address Book, or any text (.csv) file.

For Windows Address Book

1. On the File menu, point to Import, and then click Address Book.
2. Select the address book or file type you want to import, and then click Open.

For all other address book formats

1. On the File menu, point to Import, and then click Other Address Book.
2. Click the address book or file type you want to import, and then click Open.

If your address book is not listed, you can export it to either a text (.csv) file or an LDAP Directory Interchange Format (LDIF) file, and then import it using that file type.

To import messages from other e-mail programs

Using the Outlook Express Import Wizard, you can easily import e-mail messages from a variety of popular Internet e-mail programs such as Netscape Communicator and Eudora, as well as from Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Outlook.

1. On the File menu, point to Import, and then click Messages.
2. Select the e-mail program you want to import messages from, and then click Next.
3. Verify the location of your messages, and then click Next.
4. Choose All folders to import all the messages, and then click Next. You can also choose Selected Folders to import messages from one or more folders.
5. Click Finish.

To import e-mail account settings

1. On the File menu, point to Import, and then click Mail Account Settings.
2. Select the e-mail client you want to import and click Next.
3. The settings for the e-mail account will appear. To accept these settings, select Accept Settings, and then click Next. Go to step 5.
4. To change any of the settings, select Change Settings, and then click Next. Use the Internet Connection Wizard to step through the settings for the e-mail account. Make any changes you want and click Next.
5. On the Completion page, click Finish.
6. To see the account information, on the Tools menu, click Accounts.

To import newsgroup account settings

1. On the File menu, point to Import, and then click News Account Settings.
2. Select the newsgroup account you want to import and click Next.
3. The settings for the newsgroup account will appear. To accept these settings, select Accept Settings, and then click Next. Go to step 5.
4. To change any of the settings, select Change Settings, and then click Next. Use the Internet Connection Wizard to step through the settings for the newsgroup account. Make any changes you want and click Next.
5. On the Completion page, click Finish.
6. To see the account information, on the Tools menu, click Accounts.

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Exporting items from Outlook Express

You can export items from Outlook Express to use in other programs. These items include:

• Address Book: You can export the Address Book from Outlook Express so that it can be used in other Microsoft e-mail programs, such as Outlook.
• Messages: You can export messages from one or more of your folders

To export an address book

1. On the File menu, point to Export, and then click Address Book.
2. Choose a format for the export. To export your address book directly from Outlook Express, choose Microsoft Exchange Personal Address Book. To use a file with address information separated by commas, select Text File.
3. Click Export.
4. Choose a profile that most closely fits the intended use for the exported address book, and then click OK.

To export messages to Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Exchange

1. On the File menu, point to Export, and then click Messages.
2. In the Choose Profile dialog box, choose the profile name that best matches the Microsoft program to which you are exporting.
3. To export all the messages, click All Folders.
4. To export messages in one or more folders, click Selected Folders. Then select the folders you want to export.

You can find this and similar type of help topics on Microsoft Outlook Express and many other email client programs. For more work out can be carried on related links below.

Related Links:

• Previous posts about using Outlook Express @ this blog
• Web Queries for Using Microsoft Outlook Express from Windows Live
• Official Link of MSOE : Link1 || Link2
• Support from Microsoft : http://support.microsoft.com/
• Microsoft Download Center : http://download.microsoft.com/