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Book V
Chapter 1
Upgrading to
Microsoft Outlook
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Upgrading from Entourage 2008 or 2004
Later, when you’re satisfied that Outlook brought forward everything you
need from your old Identity, you can save your old Entourage Identity
for posterity or trash it. Your old Identity can be found in Documents\
Microsoft User Data folder\Office 2008 (or 2004) Identities. (Refer to
Figure 1-2.) Identities can be large, so when you’re satisfied that your
Identity is working fine in Outlook, deleting your old Identity can free
a considerable amount of disc space. Here are some fine details about
upgrading from Entourage 2008 or Entourage 2004:
✦ Categories, calendars, calendar events, tasks, and notes are all
supported in Outlook and will be carried forward.
✦ Outlook upgrades only one Identity automatically. If you have more
than one Identity, see the later section, “Manually upgrading an
Entourage Identity.”
✦ If you have any Project Center documents, they’re left undisturbed. If
your project documents are not already in shared locations and you
need to share them, consider moving your documents to SkyDrive,
SharePoint, Mac OS X sharing, or Windows shared folders.
✦ Project Center projects will be lost because Entourage Project Center
is not supported in Outlook.
✦ Outlook does not support Entourage’s link feature. Links that were in
Entourage will be abandoned when upgrading.
If you’re using a version of Entourage older than 2004 or 2008, Outlook may
not be able to import your Entourage Identity. To find out which version of
Entourage you have, choose Entourage➪About Entourage. Before installing
Office 2011, in Entourage choose File➪Export to save your Identity as an
Entourage Archive file (.rge). See Entourage help for details about how to
do this. In Entourage, choose Tools➪Accounts and gather all the account
information. You’ll need to re-create your accounts in Outlook. After installing
Office 2011, open Microsoft Outlook. Follow these steps to import your Identity
into Outlook from the .rge file using a wizard-like series of setup dialogs:
1. In Outlook, choose File➪Import from the menu bar.
The Begin Import dialog displays.
2. Select the Entourage Information from an Archive or Earlier Version
option and then click the right-arrow button at the lower-right corner
of the dialog.
The Choose an Application dialog displays.
3. Select the Entourage Archive (.rge) option and click the right-arrow
button at the lower-right corner of the dialog.
The Import file browser displays.
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