Making Outlook 2003 my Handspring (palm) desktop synch

[Orrie]

Hi,

I know I should be asking this at a Palm-oriented NG, but I did not receive
any replies when I tried.

I would like to know if it is possible to use Outlook 2003 as the desktop
synch application with my old Handspring Visor Deluxe (Palm OS 3.01H).
I've just bought the upgrade to Office 2003 for my new Windows XP Pro
computer, and would like to start using Outlook as my main e-mail and
contact manager. On my old Win 98SE computer, I used Starfish Sidekick 98 as
the desktop program, but it is Sidekick is longer supported and I've heard
that it has problems working under Win XP.

Data from Sidekick 98 can be exported as ASCII Tab-Delimited Text (.txt),
ASCII Comma Separated (.csv), Spreadsheet Data Interchange (.dif) or dBase
III or IV (.dbf) files.

I'd appreciate any guidance you can offer about how to change over to
Outlook 2003. Do I have to wipe my Handspring, export/import the Sidekick
files into Outlook, then re-setup the Handspring to synch with it? Is a
third party synchronizing program required as the interface between the
Handspring and Outlook?

Thanks for any help you can offer.

Orrie

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

If you have your data in the Palm/Handspring already, see www.chapura.com
and get PocketMirror to sync it to Outlook. Works very well, doesn't cost
much.