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by Member 20103774

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My office is convering to W2K. In preparation they are switching browsers from Netscape to IE 5.0. My wife is on the leading edge. She wants to convert all of her addresses and bookmarks that she has had, and loves so dearly. I want to make thischange at home, so she can be prepared to use Outlook and IE 5.0. Help, please. I have points, but no time to research.

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by hstahl

IE has a way to import Netscape bookmarks. Its under File -> Import/Export. It runs a wizard.

Outlook does as well. Its under File -> Import and Export. Going from Netscape you would choose Import Internet Mail and Addresses.

Hope that helps.

-Heath

by bucko77

The first answer's exactly right, but make sure you install IE5.5 and Outlook before you remove Netscape (not that you have to remove netscape)

Otherwise make sure you backup your bookmark.htm and cookies.txt as well as your pab

Good luck

by Member 20103774

I appreciate the heads up on IE 5.5 and Outlook. I remain a Unix/Netscape bigot, but it seems I am being pulled into WIN2000 server and desktop - like it or not. I have to keep my mind open to new technology. I am now on Outlook at work and raninto some problems with my Personal.pst not transferring correctly. Can you guess what I did wrong (other than not backing up the Personal.pst). I did get my wife's computer setup and working. Thank you for your help. I am in a momentary lull after working 100% overtime for two weeks.

by jmatt

http://www.sover.net/~whoi/WinUtils3.html

Panic Over ( POP ) saves your email, address book, favorites
and docs so you can restore them after a reload of
Windows 98. You must have a D or E drive to run this program.

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http://chattanooga.net/~scochran/DBXtract.htm

OE5 has a proprietary binary format that makes archiving
individual messages difficult. In addition, a number of
people have indicated that theirmessage folders have
become corrupted and OE can not read them. Consequently,
they have lost all the messages in that folder.

DBXtract.exe extracts all mail and news messages from
individual dbx files. After extracting the messages one
can drag them from a Windows Explorer folder into an Outlook
Express mail folder.

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by jmatt

http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/stories/info/0,,001267,.html

Requirements:Pentium 90, and Windows 9x, NT, 2000, or Me

Purchase Information: Free

Ever wish you could convert the address database from one email
program's format to another?Dawn is a free utility that makes
it possible. It's rather spartan main interface could be more
intuitive, but luckily it can be run in a much friendlier wizard
mode. You can use Dawn to convert data between
Netscape Communicator 4.x, Netscape Navigator 3.x,
Internet Explorer/Outlook Express/Windows Address Book,
MS Outlook 98/2000, Juno, WordPerfect 8.x, Eudora 3.x and 4.x,
and Pegasus Mail 3.x. (It can't help you with Netscape 6, though.)
Dawn should also work with other programs that can use/import/export
LDAP/LDIF, Comma Separated Value (CSV), plain text, or one-per-line
or comma-separated formats or store addresses in a text file suitable
for extraction. Note: This is a beta version, so it could be buggy
and/orunstable. The developer welcomes your comments.

by ing. angel bedolla

The easiest solution I have come up for my users, is go to the menu item. Right click and copy. Open Word and paste the item. Save the file, and when you have installed the new browser, just open the Word file again. Click on every item and markit. I know it is very naive, but keeps my users off my back.

by bunderwood

You can use the import, export features of both Netscape and Internet explorer to get the results that you need.

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