Problem w/data exported to switch fm Palm Desktop to Outlook

[Jonathan]

I did search this forum for a fix and found none, so here goes: I am having a
lot of trouble getting Palm Desktop data formatted for import to Outlook. (OS
v5.2.x on a T3) Has anyone found why there are extra quotes and zeros in Palm
Desktop fields which cause columns to be way out of order in both tab- and
comma-delimited files I have been making? I have tried many combinations of
delimiter and excel import. I have done database transfers many times in the
past for other migrations using text files. This isn’t working!

Does anyone know a direct import (with field mapping choices) from Palm
Desktop to Outlook?

I am switching to Outlook as my PIM, using Outlook 2000 as the platform for
a couple of weeks on my current laptop before my new tabletPC arrives. This
new tablet will run Office 2003 Pro and I will migrate the data to that
version of Outlook when the Office install is finished. However, the data is
so out of whack that there could be hours re-aligning cells and columns. A
Word text file looks exactly the same -- too many tabs in some rows, throwing
the data into the wrong fields. There’s an occasional zero in the exported
data position that is not in the data. Weird.

I have tried checking and unchecking the “Treat consecutive delimiters as
one†option in all the different pathways I have tried.
I will post the same question in a Palm forum, but there are many fewer of
those these days…

Jonathan

 

[Jonathan]

Aswering my own post...

I bypassed the data export issue, it seems, by switching the Palm conduits
to look for Outlook sync. Then I set the conduits to move the data from the
handheld to "overwrite the computer" and the data populated my Outlook 2000
database. I will examine the mtch of the fields closely but si far ot looks
like a clean overwrite.

Now I switch the conduits back to sync in a balanced way between the
devices, and it should be OK. Whew!

Now I have to research migrating Outlook data betwen computers. Outlook 2000
info will have to become "2003" info on the new tablet.

Jonathan