SubscribeIn Outlook 2010, you can easily export your email, Calendar, Contacts, Tasks or other data. This comes in handy when you would like to backup your data or move your data to another computer.
1. Click the Office button in the upper-left corner.
2. Click Saving.
3. Click Export.
4. Click Export on the right side.
5. Select Export to a file and click Next.
6. Select Outlook Data File (.pst) and click Next.
7. Choose what you would like to backup. Calendar, all Personal Folders, Inbox, etc. Click Next when ready.
8. Provide a location and filename to backup to. Click Finish.
You may want to store this file safely on a backup drive, flash drive or network drive. That way if something happens to your hard drive, there isn’t a single point of failure.
by Eric Vogel, on November 21 2009 @ 7:10 pm
I do not have the saving button with the latest tech preview. I need to export my contacts to another pc because my PDA will not sync with Outlook Properly and I need to sync off another pc.
by Tropolite, on November 24 2009 @ 4:42 pm
Ditto…
I’ve just downloaded the new Office 2010 public beta and found I have no ‘Saving’ option either.
Any ideas anyone?
by Ken, on November 26 2009 @ 10:37 pm
This is exactly what makes Microsoft so frustrating – I have the Beta of Office 2010 and there is NO ‘Office Button in the top left corner’ – I have now wasted over an hour searching for a way to export my contacts, and so far I haven’t found it. Is it Microft’s aim in life to drive it’s users demented by hiding important functions away from them?
by Rob Dallenbach, on November 30 2009 @ 6:12 pm
It’s there, though maybe not intuitive here in Beta.
Goto the Office backstage area (in beta this is via clicking “File”). Then goto Open->Import. Here you can change what you’re doing from an import to an export
by Ken Heart, on December 8 2009 @ 10:43 pm
Maybe I am going blind, but I see no “office backstage area” in my version of Office 2010 Beta.
by R Hardy, on December 9 2009 @ 7:49 am
There is no “backstage area”. Simply select “file”, “open”, “import”. You can export and import from there.
by Gregory Pokrywka MD, FACP, on January 14 2010 @ 5:37 am
r hardy method above WORKS in 2010, but takes FOREVER for large files in 2010. takes MUCH longer than the old 2007 office backup tool. where is the 2010 backup tool ? why do we have to “create” a file (slows things down) simply to backup the pst files ? there must be a better way to back up to a flash drive.
form what i recall, one cannot simply copy the pst file to a flash drive- refuses to accept it or says “file too big” (even thought there is plenty of room on the usb flash drive.)
Help ! need quick , simple backup solution for outlook 2010 data files.
by Chris, on February 19 2010 @ 6:40 am
I have no “saving,” button either!
MS Backup add on does not work for me either.
Very frustrating. Other than a complete backup of my .pst file, I know of no way to backup my contacts!
by Paul, on February 26 2010 @ 3:22 pm
Click the File tab, select Open, the select Import, youu.will find export in that meny