You decided to export your Outlook data to a new computer only to realize that all Outlook categories have not been exported. Instead of manually creating those categories again you decided to search for a solution to backup the categories on the old computer and add them again to the new pc.
Outlook categories are saved in the registry in the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Office. The Outlook version that you are using determines the rest of the path. Here is a quick summary of possibilities:
- 8.0 \ Outlook \ Categories \ means Outlook 98
- 9.0 \ Outlook \ Categories \ means Outlook 2000
- 10.0 \ Outlook \ Categories \ means Outlook XP
- 11.0 \ Outlook \ Categories \ means Office 2003
- 12.0 \ Outlook \ Categories \ means Office 2007
All you need to do is export the categories key and import it in the new computer. To export the key right-click categories and select export from the menu. Select a file name and click on save to end the export.
Load the created file on the new computer and double-click it to import the settings. This is of course only valid if you import the categories into the same version of Outlook. If you are using a different version of Outlook you need to edit the registry key before you import the categories.
Related posts:
Import Outlook Emails into Windows Mail in Windows VistaThunderbird Tip: Import and Export Mail Filters
Import and Export all Windows Drivers
Export Internet Explorer’s Trusted and Restricted Sites
Force Outlook To Delete Mails Completely
Importing Calendar From Microsoft Outlook To Mozilla Lightning
Enable blocked file types in Outlook
Import and Export Firefox Passwords
6 Responses to “How to import and export Outlook categories”
Trackbacks/Pingbacks
-
[...] 原文链接。 I hope you enjoyed reading this post. You may now subscribe to my RSS Feed, scroll down to 留下评论 or get back to the homepage. I recommend Giganews, the ultimate P2P alternative: Read here why [...]
Hi Martin,
I’m sorry, your article isn’t correct and will mislead your readers. Via the registry, you cannot share categories between Outlook before XP and XP or 2003. And for Outlook 2007 the categories aren’t stored in the registry anymore.
For details please see:
http://www.vboffice.net/workshop.html?pub=52&lang=en&smp=1&cmd=showitem#t6
Your article is incorrect regarding Outlook 2007. Outlook 2007 does not keep categories in the registry. Therefore it is useless to mention the registry entry location for 2007. This has mislead readers.
Err, thanks Martin. That worked beautifully. I see you may have made a small mistake as listed by the pleasant comments above.
Ways and means of pointing things out people. Go play in the sunshine…
I have converted a slghtly different issue with exporting categories from Outlook 2002 into Windows Vista contacts programme. I exported the Outlook contacts to a CSV file and successfully imported them to Windows Mail (on same computer). The problem is that my categories have vanished. I have over two thousand contacts grouped in 50 or so different categories in Outlook – but the contacts appear in ‘Windows contacts’ uncategorised (ie: there’s one ‘unspecified’ category containing all the contacts). It is too labour intensive to re-categorise each contact. I suspect this is a mapping problem in the way I have exported the Outlook contacts to the CSV file (in fact I did no mapping as such during the export – I ignored the ‘map custom fields’ button and got on with the export). Can anyone help please? If you can resolve this – simple line by line instructions would be appreciated as my geeky abilities are limited! Thanks.
Moonstone,
if you just missed any steps during the export, you can do the export again. Beofre that, delete any contacts from Windows Mail.
However, as I haven’t used or seen Windows Mail, I can imagine that it doesn’t support Outlook categories at all.