Importing contact list from Excel

[Humbert]

I'm trying to import a contact list from excel
to "Contact" in Outlook.
1. I ranged all the cells in Excel that I want to import.
2. I went to Outlook, I followed the instructions in the
import wizard. The resault was that all the field were
imported with the exception of 3 of my fields.
What I noticed is that 3 of my missing fields were no
present in the Outlook list of fields in the Map Custom
Fields window. I tryed to includ my 3 fields beside the
User 1, 2, 3 field without success. Can some body tells me
how to create new fields in the Map Custom Fields.
I will really appreciate your help because I need this
work done ASAP. Thanks again. Orlando

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

You cannot import custom fields.

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After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Humbert asked:

| I'm trying to import a contact list from excel
| to "Contact" in Outlook.
| 1. I ranged all the cells in Excel that I want to import.
| 2. I went to Outlook, I followed the instructions in the
| import wizard. The resault was that all the field were
| imported with the exception of 3 of my fields.
| What I noticed is that 3 of my missing fields were no
| present in the Outlook list of fields in the Map Custom
| Fields window. I tryed to includ my 3 fields beside the
| User 1, 2, 3 field without success. Can some body tells me
| how to create new fields in the Map Custom Fields.
| I will really appreciate your help because I need this
| work done ASAP. Thanks again. Orlando

 

[Guest]

I'm not importing Custom Fields. I want to know if I can
create new fields in the "Map Custom Fields" Thank you

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

No.

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| I'm not importing Custom Fields. I want to know if I can
| create new fields in the "Map Custom Fields" Thank you
|| -----Original Message-----
|| You cannot import custom fields.
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|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
|| the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my
|| personal account will be deleted without reading.
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|| After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Humbert
|| asked:
||
||| I'm trying to import a contact list from excel
||| to "Contact" in Outlook.
||| 1. I ranged all the cells in Excel that I want to import.
||| 2. I went to Outlook, I followed the instructions in the
||| import wizard. The resault was that all the field were
||| imported with the exception of 3 of my fields.
||| What I noticed is that 3 of my missing fields were no
||| present in the Outlook list of fields in the Map Custom
||| Fields window. I tryed to includ my 3 fields beside the
||| User 1, 2, 3 field without success. Can some body tells me
||| how to create new fields in the Map Custom Fields.
||| I will really appreciate your help because I need this
||| work done ASAP. Thanks again. Orlando
||
||
|| .

 

[Karl Timmermans]

As Milly answered - you can't automatically create new fields when importing
via the Outlook Import engine. You can however do that with either of our
products (link below) but one caveat to that is - these would only be
created as "text fields" if you did not first create these new fields in the
first contact in the folder. At that point - you could define them as
required and the data format would be verified on import.

Karl

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