Converting ACT v6.0 data to Outlook 2003

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Mark Gump - 26 Mar 2004 08:44 GMT

I am trying to export as much data as possible from my
ACT v6.0 database and then import it into Outlook 2003.
I can do all the operations of exporting and importing
but Outlook seems to think the data file is made up of
one huge field rather than many small fields when it gets
to the point of mapping the ACT data into Outlook fields.

I can get Outlook to map it right automatically every
once in a while if I only use the first 10 or so records
from the exported data but when I try to use the whole
file's worth of data, it wants to show most (not all) of
the importing fields as one field then a few of the rest
of the fields as individual fields.

If anyone has had a similar experience and gotten around
it somehow, I would appreciate hearing how you did it.

Thanks.

Mark Gump
MGump@socal.rr.com

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- 29 Mar 2004 18:04 GMT

I've got no experience with ACT so I cannot begin to help
with the problem directly. However, I have had good
success with importing/exporting from Outlook using an
Excel Database as the intermediary. You might want to
try this, if ACT will export to Excel. -Skip

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>I am trying to export as much data as possible from my
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davew - 10 Apr 2004 05:06 GMT

I am trying to do exactly the same thing, import contact
data from ACT 6.0 to Outlook 2003. The MS Office On-Line
help sez I must have ACT 5.0 or earlier and I upgraded from
there some time ago. Have you had any luck with finding a
method ??

Davew

>-----Original Message-----

>I am trying to export as much data as possible from my

>ACT v6.0 database and then import it into Outlook 2003.

>I can do all the operations of exporting and importing

>but Outlook seems to think the data file is made up of

>one huge field rather than many small fields when it gets

>to the point of mapping the ACT data into Outlook fields.

>I can get Outlook to map it right automatically every

>once in a while if I only use the first 10 or so records

>from the exported data but when I try to use the whole

>file's worth of data, it wants to show most (not all) of

>the importing fields as one field then a few of the rest

>of the fields as individual fields.

>If anyone has had a similar experience and gotten around

>it somehow, I would appreciate hearing how you did it.

>Thanks.

>Mark Gump

>MGump@socal.rr.com

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