Contacts, Address Books, import, export

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1. My Palm Desktop has best Address Book
2. I switched (trying to) Outlook and/or Outlook Express
a. OUTLOOK & OUTLOOK EXPRESS ("WINDOWS XP
Professional "Office XP FOR SMALL BUSINESS" - Outlook
2002 )
ARE NOT USER FRIENDLY
--VERY VERY DIFFICULT, CONFUSING PROGRAMS!!!!
4. I want to delete Palm Desktop
a. (I Replaced Palm with new Dell Axium X5 )
1. ActiveSync uses Outlook
b. Can't delete it because
Address Book & Contact lists are LOCATED EVERYWHERE
****I can never find the same folder twice.
Makes it impossible when "export" or "import" choices
lead to "BROWSE"
Seriously, I at times must browse 20 min.
Can never tell if I'm in
OUTLOOK or
OUTLOOK EXPRESS
It is never clear.
I've done it a ZILLION WAYS
AND YES I STUDY SUPPORT SITES & DOWNLOAD WHITE PAPER
ETC. I HAVE 3000 kb Word Documents
HOGGING up my hard drive to get help for OUTLOOK, OUTLOOK
EXPRESS (WHO knows WHICH IS WHICH & WHY THERE ARE BOTH OF
THEM)ADDRESS BOOK CONTACT LIST IMPORT EXPORT.
Still
Outlook gives us choice somewhere in PROFILE, or IDENTITY
There is even ANOTHER ADDRESS BOOK
START PROGRAMS ACCESSORIES then some VERY VERY NICE
Address book that says 'MAIN IDENTITY"
OR something like that
BUT in Outlook
when we get to choose
1 contact list &
1 Address book
Then always have option "from Contact list or address
book"
ADDRESS BOOK OPTION IS ALWAYS EMPTY!
i have tried EVERYTHING
to import good Palm AND / OR
good "start program accessories address book to
BE USED as the "address book" choice
MEANWHILE I
am wasting HOURS & HOURS manually putting stuff in
CONTACTS that those 2 addressbooks are not importing to
Contacts NOR forming ADDRESS BOOK IN OUTLOOK!!!!
and STILL When the choices come
on
all sorts of OBSCURE folders on Windows XP
eg.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Could you perhaps distill this into a single concise question?
Most of us don't try to use every possible address book at our disposal at
the same time. That would indeed be very confusing.