transferring

[Gennifer36]

I have bought a new laptop running Vista home premium .I need to transfer my XP's calendar items to my new laptop. if so can somebody tell me how (in simple terms please) thanks Jenny

have looked at some of answers for transferring & they all refer to files but I think of Calendar as a programme so would they work properly for me

[vehelpfulguy]

What program are these calendar items stored in?

[Gennifer36]

Hi there I am talking about entries in Calendar in the Microsoft Works task Launcher program in my XP laptop. Jenny

[vehelpfulguy]

Microsoft Works is an "add on" program to Windows so may not be on your Vista computer.

Windows Vista has a built in calendar so you could use that, see here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista /features/calendar.aspx

The usual way to get information out of a program like this is to "export" the info out of the one program and then "import" the details into the other.

Having said that, I am not sure if Works even has an export option on the calendar. And even if it has, it may be that Vista calendar cannot import a Works calendar.

So the first thing to find out is, when you are in the Works calendar, is there an Export option on one of the menus?

Try searching the Works help to see if there is anything about export in calendar.

Also, do you happen to know what version of Works you have on the XP machine?

Finally, do you have Works on the Vista machine or do you plan to use the bult in Vista calendar?

[LewPaper]

This may be completely off-target but when I need to reformat my hard drive I copy the program's file in Program Files and store it on another drive. Having completed the reformat and reinstalled that particular program I delete all the contents of that program's file replacing them from the one I saved earlier.

[Gennifer36]

Hi there again would transferring the Calendar to a flash drive work the same?

[Gennifer36]

vehelpfulguy I tried exporting with the calendar as you suggested but it only did one file & there are quite a few to transfer , hence my previous question about flash drive Jenny