I'd have offered you a (free) solution to your problem but unfortunately we
don't support Outlook '98 and the problem may well be an issue related to
the age of your programs which no longer exists in current releases. To be
honest, I have no idea anymore what Outlook '98 or Excel '97 supports
anymore in the way of import/export drivers but if either supports MS Access
2.0 we could possibly convert your data to that format just for you to test.

However, having said that - just to make sure I understand correctly - are
you saying that your phone numbers are not importing "at all" - i.e. as in
blank or are importing as strange numbers?

If you wish to contact me directly outside of this forum and send me a
sample of your data - will be happy to take a look in case we can find
something that stands out  (this is not intended as a general invitation for
everyone who is having a
problem :-) ). - Please make sure you reference this newsgroup should you
decide to follow-up. In terms of the data - we operate under an automatic
general non-disclosure agreement which is published on our website in case
confidentiality is an issue related to your data.

My bet is on the way your import drivers are scanning the data - a quick way
to prove that is to create a worksheet with only one contact and put any
non-numeric character in front of your phone number - then import that
single contact both via Excel and after saving it as a CSV file.

Karl