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Move Outlook 2007 Data to Outlook Express

I have an old laptop where I am using Outlook 2007.  I just purchased a new laptop with Windows 7 using Outlook Express.  I don't plan on purchasing and installing Outlook 2007 on the new laptop.  So I need a way to transfer my contacts and emails from Outlook on my old computer to Outlook Express on the new computer. Can this be done and how?
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Oh, and if you don't see the pst files there, right click on the mailbox within outlook on the old computer to find the location.  Right click, properties, advanced button will show the file location.
 
Hope this helps.
 
Address Magic Personal would do the trick.
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I have used this product for other conversions.
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Thank you all for your help.  This is a tricky one to grade, you both helped to some degree even though it took a couple different sources for me to get the entire answer to move Outlook 2007 to "Outlook Express" on a Windows 7 PC.  Although they may be more than one way to do this here, here's what I finally had to do.
1.) on the PC with the Outolook j2007 date I first had to import the messages in the PST file from Outlook 2007 into Oulook Express 6, which made individual DBX files.  
2.) Then I xferred all these DBX folders to the Windows 7 PC which used Windows Live Mail (no more OE on win 7) and imported them using the import feature of Live Mail (actuall import function for DBX filesJ).
3.) Then back to the old PC.  Exported the contacts (Addresses) to a CSV comma delimited file
4.) Transferred the CSV file to the Win 7 PC and then using the import function of the Contacts feature of Live Mail, imported all the contacts into LIve Mail.
It worked!  NOte the DBX files end up in a folder called "imported folders"