Hi Diane I have now purchased 2013 as you suggested and it has migrated all my info from 2002 very well. thanks. Just one more question which has bee niggling me for sometime. In my 2002 outlook I put all my birthday dates in my calendar and colour code them under the category of "birthday". I then used the list in calendar and each month printed off a list of the birthdays for that month. However, the ones I inserted at the end of 2012 and then in 2013 just would not go into date order and believe me I tried. I check all entries and they were exactly the same for the bulk of the birthday as for these new entries. Now they have been imported into 2013 I have the same problem. Again I have checked and there does not seem any different between the entries. Any ideas? Thanks Christine