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I am working on getting my contacts to show up in my address book from a CSV
import. I've narrowed it down to the fact that even though each entry has a
display as in it's individual contact file the display as does not show up in
the address book. Can you tell me how to fix this? They do not show up on
the contact list in the different views either (like when I view all the
contacts together). Hmmm. Any ideas?

Thanks!
 
I've found one solution - if you know of another that would be shorter I'd
love to hear it.

So, what you do is open each individual contact, then double click on the
email to see the "email properties" the OK button will be grayed out so you
have to actually click on the "internet format" arrow and even if it is the
format you want, you still have to click that format in the drop down menu so
that the OK button will turn black. This will make the display name show up.
Very Interesting.

Unfortunately you have to do this with each entry. Any ideas on how to do
this for all the entries at once?

Thanks!
 
When you import Contacts from another file format, the File As... field is
never created correctly. You must open and edit each Contact to create the
File As... field.
It's one of many reason we recommend against importing Contacts if at all
possible.
 
A few questions:

#1 - What version of Outlook are you referring to?
#2 - How did you perform the "import" - via Outlook or programatically?
#3 - If you did it "programmatically" - what email fields were you importing
and in what sequence?
#4 - Was this contact folder in a PST file or an Exch folder? If Exch -
which version?
#5 - If O'2K - what mode? IMO or Corp?

Our products import data including email addresses as a matter of daily
course for our customers and I've never heard of this problem (the
Email1AddressType not being set on the creation of a contact if an email
address was present) - either using the Outlook import function itself or
via any of our products.

As an aside, I agree with Russ completely when he states that the
"export/import" process should not be used to move contact info from one
computer to another. It's always better to simply migrate a .PST file
whenever and whereever possible regardless of what other options you have
available (in fact, that's exactly how we (ContactGenie authors) internally
migrate our own data from machine to machine and would never think of
exporting our data even though internally we have all the tools to do it -
just a complete waste of time and would be the wrong way to do it). However,
life isn't always that simple when adding/updating contacts in bulk which is
how ContactGenie got born. Most of our customers have no option BUT to
import their data (ask any sales person who buys sales leads from a
bona-fide list provider (D&B, InfoUSA, plus a litany of others as a for
instance - not to mention the number that get their data from a website
database moved into a corp database and then pushed out to an Exch public
folder or to their users individually etc).

If your message relates to a version of Outlook prior to Outlook '2000 then
will defer this to someone else who may be more familiar with older versions
of Outlook since we don't get involved with anything earlier then O'2K
anymore and for O'2K - it's in corporate/workgroup mode only (will probably
drop "explicit" support for O'2K altogether sometime in the mid-latter part
of 2005 for new updates/releases).

Karl

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Karl Timmermans - The Claxton Group
ContactGenie - Importer 1.3 / DataPorter 2.0
"Power contact importers for MS Outlook '2000/2003"
http://www.contactgenie.com
 
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