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Old 02-22-2005, 10:44 AM
CarolynAnneMB Offline
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How do I share Outlook 2003 across 2 disparate XP accounts?

Greetings from a newbie,

I'm running Windows XP, and just upgraded from Office 97 to Office 2003 Professional Edition, and I'm having a problem with Outlook. Before upgrading, I was using Outlook Express, and had successfully set it up to share one OE account across 2 disparate Windows XP accounts. (Very useful link, if anyone's looking for answers on that one: http://www.loftinspace.com.au/stuffs/express.html.) It doesn't seem to make sense for Outlook, though...

So now, I want to do the same thing with Outlook 2003. My husband and I have seperate XP accounts, but one email address. After installing Office 2003, I logged in as each user, and Outlook imported the inbox and other folders, and some of our addresses from OE (I had organized some of my addresses in folders, and they didn't make it in the transfer, but happily the addresses remained unique to each user... ie. the addresses seen when I log in are different than when he logs in).

My goal is to have it set up such that regardless of who logs in, the inbox, folders in Outlook stay the same, while the address book remains unique to each user. If possible, I'd like the calendar to be the same for both of us, as well. As it stands now, if I log in and get new email and read it, it won't appear in the inbox when he logs in.

This seems a little rambly, but I though maybe it's better to be verbose than cryptic. Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Please forgive me if this question has come up before -- I did search high and low for 2 days before posting here, and nothing hit the mark.

Kind regards,
CarolynAnne
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