Importing contacts from ACT! 6.0 into Outlook 2003

[Peter A. Forkes]

I'll not bore you with all the unbelievable steps I have gone through to
help out a friend get his contacts from ACT! 6.0 to Outlook 2003 and I still
haven't managed it.

What is the secret?

Peter

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Ask Act!

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
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After furious head scratching, Peter A. Forkes asked:

| I'll not bore you with all the unbelievable steps I have gone through
| to help out a friend get his contacts from ACT! 6.0 to Outlook 2003
| and I still haven't managed it.
|
| What is the secret?
|
| Peter

 

[Peter A. Forkes]

I doubt tat the ACT! people would tell me...do you think Microsoft would
tell me how to export their data into Outlook? It wouldn't make good
business sense to tell me how to get out of their product.

That said, I eventually found out where to get Business Contact Manager.
However, Microsoft seem 'coy' about saying which versions of ACT! it will
import from (without BCM I can only install from up to ACT! 5.0 and I have
ACT! 2006. Can you tell me if BCM will handle ACT! 2006? I doubt that ACT!
will tell me ;-)

Peter



"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Microsoft already tells you how to get their data out of Microsoft. Export
to a .csv, .txt or Database. If other software makers write an importer for
these common types of files, what is to stop anyone from exporting to a
supported type and importing that into their new program?

Act! is the one that needs to write the exporter. Where it gets imported is
out of their control. Unless they choose to not write an exporter.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Peter A. Forkes asked:

| I doubt tat the ACT! people would tell me...do you think Microsoft
| would tell me how to export their data into Outlook? It wouldn't
| make good business sense to tell me how to get out of their product.
|
| That said, I eventually found out where to get Business Contact
| Manager. However, Microsoft seem 'coy' about saying which versions of
| ACT! it will import from (without BCM I can only install from up to
| ACT! 5.0 and I have ACT! 2006. Can you tell me if BCM will handle
| ACT! 2006? I doubt that ACT! will tell me ;-)
|
| Peter
|
|
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| || Ask Act!
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Peter A. Forkes asked:
||
||| I'll not bore you with all the unbelievable steps I have gone
||| through to help out a friend get his contacts from ACT! 6.0 to
||| Outlook 2003 and I still haven't managed it.
|||
||| What is the secret?
|||
||| Peter