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My dad has become secretary of the local beekeepers club, and he has
been given a list of contacts in excel spreadsheet format with the
following columns:

Name (one field, surname, initial)
Address (one field, commas separate the lines)
Telephone no
Email Address (sometimes empty)

is there an easy way to convert the data in this format into palm
contacts information?

He is using a Zire 21 (he has access to a Zire 31, and a Clie TJ-35,
although I doubt this will make much difference), which has an
Outlook synchronization option, but no programs to read in excel
files. He is pretty competent with excel, but has only a couple
of weeks experience with palms. Any advice?

(There are only ~50-100 entries so I suppose he could do it manually,
but I think he would prefer an automatic option

Richard

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In article <18ae804a.0501200901.5f20dc3c@posting.google.com>,
0102806h@student.gla.ac.uk says...
> My dad has become secretary of the local beekeepers club, and he has
> been given a list of contacts in excel spreadsheet format with the
> following columns:
>
> Name (one field, surname, initial)
> Address (one field, commas separate the lines)
> Telephone no
> Email Address (sometimes empty)
>
> is there an easy way to convert the data in this format into palm
> contacts information?
>
> He is using a Zire 21 (he has access to a Zire 31, and a Clie TJ-35,
> although I doubt this will make much difference), which has an
> Outlook synchronization option, but no programs to read in excel
> files. He is pretty competent with excel, but has only a couple
> of weeks experience with palms. Any advice?
>
> (There are only ~50-100 entries so I suppose he could do it manually,
> but I think he would prefer an automatic option
>
> Richard
>

Goto <http://kb.palmone.com> PalmOne Knowledge Library and search by
Solution ID;
2590 How to import a file into the Address Book application
3453 Importing a spreadsheet of addresses into your handheld's Contacts
list (Address Book)
3563 Importing data into Palm Desktop
3820 Helpful tips for importing files into Palm Desktop's Contacts
(Address Book)
16769 When importing CSV file into Palm Desktop's Address Book, fields
are mapped incorrectly

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Hope this helps.
Jim Anderson
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