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With the implementation of Office 365, the mailbox space has increased to 50 gigabytes.

The increase in storage space should result in users no longer having to archive emails.

Restoring archived items will allow you to access them on the web.

Note: Outlook 2010 may have different colors or icons, but the steps are the same.

OPENING & RESTORING ARCHIVED ITEMS IN

OUTLOOK 2010/2013

Step 1. Open Outlook and navigate to

the File menu

Step 2. Click the Open & Export option

from the list

Step 3. Click on Open Outlook Data

File

Opening Archived Items in Outlook

These items will only appear on the desktop version of Outlook.

They will not be viewable online.

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Step 4. Navigate to where the archive file (.pst) is saved

Congratulations you have now opened all

archived items in Outlook 2010/2013.

*Note: If you have multiple archives you will

need to open each one.

Step 5. Click on the archive file (.pst) and select the Open

button

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Open-and-find-items-in-an-archive-Outlook-Data-File-pst-2e2b55a4-f681-4b93-90cb-31d39349fb95

OPENING & RESTORING ARCHIVED ITEMS IN

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OPENING, CLOSING & RESTORING ARCHIVED ITEMS IN

OUTLOOK 2010/2013

Step 1. Right click the Archives folder

Closing Archived Items in Outlook

Step 2. Select Close “Archives”

Congratulations you have now closed all

archived items in Outlook 2010/2013.

*Note: If you have multiple archives you will

need to close each one.

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Step 1. Open Outlook and navigate to

the File menu

Step 2. Click the Open * Export option

from the list

Step 3. Click on Import/Export

Restoring Archived Items in Outlook

These items will appear on the desktop and online versions of Outlook.

The restored items will use your 50gb of storage space.

Note: Archived items must be closed before restoring.

See the page before for instructions on closing archived items.

OPENING & RESTORING ARCHIVED ITEMS IN

OUTLOOK 2010/2013

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Step 4. Select Open from another

program or file

Step 5. Click Outlook Data File

(.pst)

OPENING & RESTORING ARCHIVED ITEMS IN

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Step 6. Click Browse

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Step 7. Select the archive file you

wish to import

Step 8. Click Open

OPENING & RESTORING ARCHIVED ITEMS IN

OUTLOOK 2010/2013

Step 9. Select the Do not import

duplicates option

(Not importing duplicate items will

make the restore happen quicker)

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Step 10. Select Include Subfolders

Step 11. Click Import items into the

same folder in:

OPENING & RESTORING ARCHIVED ITEMS IN

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Step 12. Click Finish

Congratulations you have now restored all

archived items in Outlook 2010/2013.