Outlook 2002 works differently than Outlook Express. Primarily it's designed to center the idea of "identity" around the user profile. If you're using WinXP / Win2K / WinNT 4.0 then people get their different "identities" by logging on to WINDOWS as different users rather than by switching e-mail identities. All users still have access to the program, but their files are stored in different places, under their respective user profiles. On an NTFS-formatted partition the file and folder permissions can be set so that the various users can't even see each other's data files. For even further protection, like when you let someone else use your profile but don't want them in your e-mail, you can go to the File menu in Outlook , select "Data File Management", then click the Settings button in the resulting "Outlook Data Files" dialog (with the data file highlighted in the window). In that dialog you can set up / change the password for the data (.pst) file that contains e-mails, calendar, notes, contacts, etc. If you're using Win9X or ME then you'll have to make use of this latter feature to get any kind of real security. You can set each user up with a different data file, but it might be easier and more transparent if you all set up your own profiles and log in with different user names and passwords. If you go into each profile and set up a different Outlook data file for that person's e-mail accounts, then each user will automatically get her/his own data file by loggin in under her/his own user name.
Do some researching of the menu options and the help files in Outlook. It's a bit of a learning curve compared to Outlook Express, but you should find it to be a worthwhile change.
- Collin
Edited for clarification -- I hope! 😀
