Creating a new profile

To do this you need to be in Corporate\Workgroups configuration.

To check whether you are in Corp\Workgroups, click Help|About Outlook. Near the top you shoudl see Microsoft Outlook 2000 and underneath that you will see either Internet mail Only or Corp\Workgroups. If you are Corp\Workgroups you are fine if not then switch as follows:

*****TO SWITCH TO CORP \ WORKGROUPS, YOU MUST HAVE DISK 1 OF OFFICE 2000*****

* Click Tools | Options
* Click Mail Delivery tab
* At the bottom click the "Reconfigure Mail Services" button.
* Select "Corporate \ Workgroups", click next
* You will receive a notice that making these changes will affect all users on this machine etc... select
"Yes" and Outlook should close.
* Insert your Office 2000 disk into the CD-ROM drive.
* Reopen Outlook and let it reconfigure.

Next, create the profile as follows:

A) Click Start | Settings | Control Panel
B) In the Control Panel click the "Mail" icon. It may also be listed as "Mail and Fax"
C) In the next window click "Show Profiles" **This is the area where you create new profiles.**
D) Click "Add" and select "manually configure information services".
E) Create a name for the profile.
F) For each service to be added you will click "Add"
1-Add | Outlook Address Book | Ok
2-Add | Personal Address Book | OK | OK *Click "OK" on the following screen to accept the PAB
3-Add | Personal Folders | Ok | Type in name of new .pst file name | Open **Click "OK" on the screens
that follow to accept the personal folders file to be added.**
G) When you have added these three components, you have the basics to use Outlook. Click "OK" and click "Finish".
You're Done! G) When you have added these three components, you have the basics to use Outlook. Click "OK" and click "Finish".
H) At the bottom of the Mail window (step C), you should see a box that says "When starting Microsoft Outlook, use this profile:"... change that setting to reflect the new profile you just created.
You're Done!