Office 2011 email accounts.

Question

Does anyone know how to migrate the information from Office 2007 to 2011? I used .rge but it did not transfer all the email accounts.
Thanks,

Answer 1

Have any of you deleted your old Entourage data since using Outlook with Office 2011?
I've kept it around initially, just in case there was any problem in Outlook that would cause me to think I need to go back to Entourage. But otherwise, no, you don't need it anymore.
I'm happy to hear that Outlook for Mac:Office 2011 is a text file and not a database.
Sort of. The emails themselves are now broken into individual files. There still is a database, but it's used for less important information. A reviewer in Macworld magazine noted that his 4.5 GB Entourage database is now 500 MB, once all the emails were extracted to individual files for Outlook. Not sure what would still take up a half gig of "less important" info. My Outlook database is now 27 MB, down from Entourage's 37. Took a look at it with Text Wrangler and it's mostly unreadable binary data.
Does this mean that the emails will be more portable -- meaning more retrievable from other programs in the future, the way the emails in Mail are?
Supposedly. Time Machine, for example, should only have to back up new emails and not the entire database file every time. Can't verify that though since I don't use TM for my backups.