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This is (to me anyway) a problem with a very obvious solution, but judging by the number of questions asked about it, it's not nearly as obvious as I think it is.
George asks: I have just done a complete re-install of Win XP Pro (SP2) on my system. I am using Outlook 2003 & have opened the old outlook.pst file & brought [the items] in to the re-installed version of Outlook.
All my contacts & e-mail came across OK – with a bit of moving. With regard to the calendars I ended up with 2 calendars (my old calendar & a new blank calendar). Is there an easy way of moving the items/appointments from the old calendar across to the new calendar to allow me to sync with PDA etc?
Of course there is an easy way. :) to begin with, the easiest method of using an old pst in a new profile is to open it as the default message store. If you don't know how, see https://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/open_pst.htm. But it's almost too late for that now – unless you had custom views in the pst, it's too much work to move everything back to the old pst.
The solution when you need to merge two calendars into one: choose a table view (the By Category view works great for this because it includes all events and appointments), select all (Ctrl+A) and drag the items from one calendar to the other.
Published April 5, 2006. Last updated on June 17, 2011.