Back Up Microsoft Office

To back up your email, contacts, and calendar in Microsoft Office, you need to export your personal folder. This can be done with the addition PFBackup from Microsoft. Follow these steps:

Moving forward, you can decide to run a backup each time you close Outlook.

  1. Close Outlook
  2. Download PFBackup here and install it to your computer
  3. Open Outlook
  4. If you have Microsoft Outlook 2007, do the following before continuing:

     

     

    1. Select Tools and then Trust Center
    2. Click on Add-Ins on the left menu
    3. Select Manage: COM Add-Ins and click OK
    4. Click Add and browse to the folder C: \ Program Files \ Microsoft Office \ Office12 \ Supplementary
    5. Select the file outback.dll and click OK and then OK again.
  5. Open the File menu, click Backup and then click Options
  6. Select how often you want to be reminded to run your backup
  7. Select the personal folder where you want to run your backup
  8. Select the backup file to be saved. Note that you must choose a destination file for each personal folder that you selected above. For instance, select c: \ Outlook Backup \ privatemail.pst and c: \ Outlook Backup \ jobmail.pst if you selected two personal folders (personal and work).
  9. Click OK and then Save Backup
  10. You will be prompted to close Outlook so that your files can back up.
  11. Create a backup of Nextiva Drive AutoStore where the folder you chose to save the files in c: \ Outlook Backup in the example above, can be included in the backup.
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