Re: Trouble...Importing Excel Data files to Outlook 2000

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From: Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook] (jfiorelloNOSPAM_at_mvps.org)
Date: 01/07/05 

Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 23:26:19 -0500

Instead of importing from the old .PST file, try opening it using File |
Open | Personal Folders File. It will open in your folder list and you can
just drag and drop contacts from the old file to your current one. 

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In news:47BCA317-432D-46FF-8270-60C9888C8483@microsoft.com,
Terri wrote:
> I need some serious help. First I lost some of my contacts when I
> hotsynced with my palm and the handheld over road the desktop....
> not sure how exactly that happened.  I was able to recover some of my
> data from the deleted files in Outlook but not all. Some of my other
> data was on my home computer in Palm software. I was able to export
> that info from the palm software into an excel spread *** and save
> it to my handheld. Now I have the information in an excel spread***
> on my office desktop. I tried to import the file, I mapped each
> column as directed and the importing process began. It stalled after
> a while and I looked in my contacts and there were close to 1000
> empty new contacts created and only imported the Names only field not
> any of the other information (such as addresses). Now I have a bunch
> of names with no information to go along with them and a bunch of
> empty contacts. What did I do wrong. I think maybe I was to select
> the cells somehow in excel but I am not sure and I can't find
> information on this anywhere.
>
> Plus on top of all of that, I was able to delete most of the empty
> contacts but now I get an error message when I try to delete anything
> from outlook. "The messaging Interface has returned an unknow error,
> If the problem persists restart outlook" Which I have with no change.
> Now I cant even delete tasks. Am I screwed? I feel like I am.
>
> I tried to Import a past personal file hoping to start from another
> day. That did not work. When it started copying contacts, I got the
> same error. I am going to enter the data by hand and will settle on
> information on how to delete. Also, tomorrow I will be getting the
> latest version of Outlook. I am afraid that I will carry over all
> this bad stuff to the newest version. By the way I have not hotsynced
> since Tuesday so my original data is there. Please help me if you can
> .... someone!!!!!
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