Should I buy Outlook 2007 (only) to add to my Home and Student 2007 Ed

[carleeg]

Hello,

This is my first post on MSFN so I hope I do this right.

I currently have a desktop computer with Windows XP and MS Office Standard Edition 2003. For the past 2 years I have been using Outlook on this computer.

I recently purchased a new laptop with Windows 7 and bought the MS Home/Student Edition 2007. I then decided that I want to add Outlook 2007 to this laptop, and switch my Outlook account from my old desktop (outlook 2003) to my new laptop. I see that you can buy Outlook 2007 only, but before I do I want to make sure it will work on my laptop and be compatible with the MS Home/Student 2007. So here are my questions;

1. Will the Outlook 2007 (only) Edition work with the MS Home & Student 2007 Edition that is already installed on my new laptop (Windows 7)?

2. If so, how can I transfer my entire Outlook account (all emails, folders, contacts, and auto-complete email address) from my old Outlook 2003 (on Window XP) to my new Outlook 2007 on my new laptop (Windows 7)?

Sorry to be so repetitive, i just want to be very clear about my situation. I would greatly appreciate your advice/help with this. Thank you.

[RodBarnes]

My experience with using Outlook 2007 with Home/Student Office 2007 was that it worked fine. I encountered no issues with it at all. I had purchased the Home/Student and installed it first. Only later did I purchase and install Outlook 2007. So I don't expect you'll have any issues doing the same thing.

The fastest way to transfer the data would be to install Outlook 2007 on the W7 computer, copy over the PST file from your XP computer, and then use the 'File -> Import -> From File...' to import the data from that PST.

[BlouBul]

An even faster way might be to just replace the new .pst file with the old one.