[RichieBoy67]

Originally Posted by Simon Lloyd

Again thanks for the reply, I understand the forum direct format and that I have to do that for every forum. For the posts or threads is it just that one rule that you gave at the end of your last post?

Ok, here's one, in Google my old vbseo link looks like this:
http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/microsoft-topics/
I entered the redirect rule in /forumz/.htaccess as below:
Redirect 301 /microsoft-topics/ http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/forumdisplay.php?f=63
But clicking the old link (or pasting it in the browser bar) doesn't redirect?

Any ideas?

That looks like it should work. Did you put RewriteEngine on at the top of the htaccess?