How can I copy or transfer office or outlook to an external hard drive without reinstall office?

Question

I purchased a new computer. I will like to transfer emailes and Office files to the new computer. I tried to do this years ago an I was unable to access my old emails.

Answer 1

You can save all your email and open it up on the new PC. The best way to do this would be to do a search on your C:\ drive for .PST files. These are the files Outlook stores all your email folders in.

Start > Search *.pst (using the asterisk will search for all things with .PST)

Once you find the files, copy them to a CD (Outlook will need to be closed durring the copy)

Then you must copy them onto the next computer, Install Outlook and use File > Open > Outlook Data File ..... point ot the PST file and open it.