Share contact data between Excel and Outlook 2003

[Guest]

I am trying to copy Excel data to Outlook in Office Pro 2003.
I had created a separate contact file as "Business Consultants" under a
separate folder under my mailbox.
Following the help under "Share contact data between Excel and Outlook " I
had named the range of cells I am trying to export.
Using <Outlook/File/Import Export/From another file/MS Excel/File To
Import/Select destination folder> the help indicates "Map Custom Fields".
The button is there, but it is shaded and cannot be used.
The "Next" button is also shaded and unavailable.
There is no explanation in the steps or in the help window.
Can anyone help me determine why I am at a dead end?

 

[Brian Tillman]

I am trying to copy Excel data to Outlook in Office Pro 2003.
I had created a separate contact file as "Business Consultants" under
a separate folder under my mailbox.
Following the help under "Share contact data between Excel and
Outlook " I had named the range of cells I am trying to export.
Using <Outlook/File/Import Export/From another file/MS Excel/File To
Import/Select destination folder> the help indicates "Map Custom
Fields". The button is there, but it is shaded and cannot be used.
The "Next" button is also shaded and unavailable.
There is no explanation in the steps or in the help window.
Can anyone help me determine why I am at a dead end?

What you describe doesn't seem to correspond to reality. Here's what I
used:

File>Import and Export>Export to a file>Next>Comma Separated Values
(Windows)>Next. Select the folder, click Next, browse to the Windows folder
where the export should go, give it a name, click OK, click Next, map custom
fields if you want (although the defaults should work), click Finish.

 

[Guest]

Brian
Thanks for your response.
I cant' tell you what I was doing wrong, but when I tried to give the file a
name it did not work. I did discover, and was ultimately successful, by
clicking on a "dummy" file I had created for this purpose . This was in lieu
of "giving the new file a name" and clicking on the folder.
Somewhere in there the steps were not clear to me.
Thanks again, Terry