Outlook - Office 2010 .pst Installation Question(s)

Greetings all,

Will be reinstalling Office/Outlook 2010 onto a reformatted hard drive with Win 7 Ultimate computer shortly.

I have a couple of saved/recovered .pst files I may attempt to re-install into the aforementioned program...If i re-install the .pst file(s) and it is not "what I wanted" (layout, multiple accounts, etc.) can I or, HOW do I "undo" that .pst installation w/out having to totally uninstall outlook/office?

I remember reading about a pst combiner program that I may utilize to combine all saved pst files but, that is at the tail end of all this....Thanking you for your assistance.

See my post from a few years ago:

Can I if need be copy the file back to C:\Outlook\Outlook.pst

Then apply the methods to add your existing saved files.

Thanks all for the reply(ies)!

Did read, but, unless I missed something, it did enlighten me but, didn't answer my question.

Let's say Office-Outlook is a fresh install and I find multiple ".pst"'s (or even one) I want to merge/install......If the layout or my desired end result is bad or some other thing I don't care for, HOW do I "undo what I just did?

In other words, How to I return Office-Outlook to its "bare installation" and before the merger of the .pst files?.....I would rather not have to uninstall Office-Outlook and then re-install it.

Between Snick and my answers you have what you need.
If you want to test before committing, use a copy of the pst files.
The DELETE key actually works.

You wrote:

"Between Snick and my answers you have what you need. If you want to test before committing, use a copy of the pst files.The DELETE key actually works."

Thanks for the reply -

I am not sure you follow my question...If I install Outlook/Office and utilize a saved pst file, all the info in same will be "installed/placed" into Outlook/Office to include ,all folders. contacts, layout and so on....If I don't like it are you implying that I should go back, find that pst file and delete it?....If so, would that "restore" Outlook/Office to it's bare installation pre-install of that pst file??

Always test with a copy file.

Make a folder on your desktop.
Copy a PST file into the new desktop folder.
Follow instructions from Snick or me to load the copied PST file from the new desktop folder.

Not happy with the results? Delete from within Outlook.

Thanks for the reply(ies),

Let's see if I understand you(s)...I have a copy of a pst file and "load it into Office/Outlook and I don't like the results...I simply find the pst file (a copy) and delete it?..That then will re-set Office/Outlook back to the point before I did the pst install?...If so, any listed procedure?

.......Nobody 'eh?...Oh well....