After i import contacts, their birthdays do not show up on the cal

[Mago Merlino]

I had outlook on an old laptop. I copied all the contacts to a folder and put
them on a USB thumb drive. I installed office 2003 on my new computer and
dragged the contacts from the USB drive into the contacts portion of Outlook
on the new computer.
Everything works fine, and i can view all the contacts correctly, but none
of the imported contacts birthdays show up in the calendar. If i start from
scratch and make a New contact, then the birthday shows up. But not for the
200 that i imported from the old computer.
Is there a way to get OUtlook to refresh all the contacts?

 

[Judy Gleeson \(MVP Outlook\)]

you've not done the move correctly - have a read of one of Russ Valentine's
daily posts about how to corrupt your Outlook data by improting it.

Regards

Judy Gleeson
MVP Outlook
Trainer and Consultant www.pragmatix.com.au
My suggested settings for Outlook 2003 are FREE on my website.

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[mayshabaka]

Ive tried finding Russ's posts but couldnt find one that answered taht
same question, I am having the same problem and the birthdays will not
show up on the calendar unless i manually edit each and every contact
and resave it, which would take me dates considering i have 2000+
contacts. I am trying to import from a regular csv file too. Is there
anyway to resolve this?

 

[Brian Tillman]

Ive tried finding Russ's posts but couldnt find one that answered taht
same question, I am having the same problem and the birthdays will not
show up on the calendar unless i manually edit each and every contact
and resave it, which would take me dates considering i have 2000+
contacts. I am trying to import from a regular csv file too. Is there
anyway to resolve this?

This is correct. Importing does not retain or create the relationship
between a contact's dates (birthday and anniversary) and the calendar.
Importing has several notable shortcomings, this being among them.