In Microsoft Office Live Workspace beta, you can use the Contact List, Event List, and Task List to collect important information for your school, work, or home projects. If you have Microsoft Office 2003 or the 2007 Microsoft Office system installed on your computer, you can then transfer your list to Microsoft Office Outlook, where the list content appears in its own folder. There is no need to update the two lists separately; any time you make changes to your list in Office Live Workspace, the same updates appear in your list folder in Office Outlook.

This article explains how to transfer the contents of a Contact List, Event List, and Task List to Office Outlook. For information about how to use folders in Office Outlook, see Office Outlook Help.

Open a list

To create a new list:

1. In Office Live Workspace, on the left navigation bar, click a workspace to open it.

2. On the toolbar, click New, and in the drop-down menu, select the type of list that you want to create.

   Note : You can create a list in a workspace, but you cannot create a list in a folder.

To open an existing list:

• In Office Live Workspace, use the left navigation bar to navigate to the workspace containing the list that you want to modify, and then click the name of the list.

Connect to Outlook

To transfer a list to Office Outlook, you must have one of the following browser and operating system combinations installed on your computer:

You must have Microsoft Office 2003 or the 2007 Office system installed on your computer to connect your list to Office Outlook. If you use Microsoft Office 2003, you can transfer the contents from Contact Lists and Event Lists, but not Task Lists, to Office Outlook. If you use the 2007 Office system, you can transfer the contents from all lists — Contact Lists, Event Lists, and Task Lists — to Office Outlook.

To add the contents of a list directly to a folder in Office Outlook:

1. In Office Live Workspace, click the list that you want to export to Office Outlook.

2. On the Office Live Workspace toolbar, click either Connect to Outlook or Connect to Client.

    

3. If you receive a security warning, click Yes.

4. When prompted, type the e-mail address and password associated with your Office Live Workspace account. Clear the check box next to Sign me in automatically. Click OK.

Your list from Office Live Workspace now appears in a folder in Office Outlook:

• Contents from a Contact List appear in a new contacts folder.
  
  
• Contents from an Event List appear in a new calendar folder.
  
  
• Contents from the Task List appear in a new task list folder.

Note : Only the content from the default columns in your Contact List, Event List, and Task List can be transferred to the Outlook folder. Content from any additional columns that you have added to these lists does not appear in your Outlook folder.

When you make changes to your list in Office Live Workspace, the same changes appear in your list folder in Office Outlook. If you use Office 2003, you cannot make changes to the list content in your Office Outlook folder. If you use the 2007 Office system, however, you can update your list folder in Office Outlook, and if your computer is connected to the Internet, the updates automatically appear in your list in Office Live Workspace.

Troubleshoot

List contents do not appear in an Outlook folder

If you create a list folder in Office Outlook, but you receive the message "You cannot make changes to contents of this read-only folder" when you try to view the list folder, do the following:

1. In Office Live Workspace, click Sign Out in the upper-right corner.

2. On the Office Live Workspace sign-in page, type your e-mail address and password that you use to sign in to Office Live Workspace.

3. On the sign-in page, clear the check box next to Save my password or Remember my password.

4. Follow steps 1 through 4 in the Connect to Outlook section earlier in this article. Your list contents should appear in an Outlook folder.