You can save your myUSI Calendar entries by exporting them to a file format that is compatible with other calendar programs. The myUSI Address Book offers two calendar formats that it can export directly to, including iCal and  XML. The iCal format is pretty standard and can be imported into most desktop calendar programs like Outlook and web calendar applications such as Google Calendar.

Luckily, it also is format compatible with the new myUSI Calendar application.

If you would like to move your Calendar information from the old myUSI to the new myUSI, here are the steps:

1. Login to the old myUSI by going to www.usieagles.org before May 22, 2009.

2. From the main myUSI page, click the Calendar icon in the upper right corner of the myUSI page.

3. From the main Calendar window, click the Options tab.

4. Then click the Export link in the left hand grey Calendar Options sidebar.

5. Choose the calendar(s) that you would like to export from the Calendars list and click the Add>>  button to move them to the Calendars to Export list.

6. Choose either to Export all events or set a Beginning and Ending date range to export into the iCal file.

7. Select iCal for the Export Format and click the Export button.

8. When the Save Dialog window comes up for your particular browser, choose where to put the export.ics file for safe keeping.

Later we will have instructions for importing an iCal file into the new myUSI Calendar application.

Files with the extension .docx are for files created by Microsoft’s Office 2007. Unfortunately, this file format is not understood by many other office productivity and word processing applications making it hard to view them if you don’t have Microsoft’s Office 2007.

You do have a number of options that you can take when trying to view these filees. The first and easiest is to ask the sender of the .docx file to resend the document in the older Office 2000 format or in the more generic Rich Text Format. If not, you can try the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats.

If you are using OpenOffice with Linux, Novell has an OpenOffice OpenXML Translator.

If you are using Office 2004 on a Mac, there is an OpenXML (the underlying format of .docx files) available on Microsoft’s Mactopia website that should help.