ACT to BCM Data Conversion

[Peter Dempewolff]

I think you would get a lot more ACT users to convert to BCM 2007 if you fix
the date conversion so that notes, histories convert with their original
creation date rather than the tranfer date as it does now. A number of us ACT
users have years of important history that is only useful if it is converted
with the original creation date. I am aware that you can pay to have the data
converted correctly, but that little give me of having the data conversion
wizard do it might be the tipping point for some more Office 2007 sales. I am
in that category.

Thanks,
Peter

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[Sat]

Hi Peter,

There was a similar discussion:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...deb8&mid=142514fa-5717-4039-ba00-894a4dfddeb8

This feasibility of this issue will be discussed in future versions. Thank
you for the suggestion.

-Sat [MSFT]

 

[Peter Dempewolff]

Hi Sat,

Thanks for the info and link. It would be nice if you could get this fix
into the next service pack.

Hi Peter,

There was a similar discussion:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...deb8&mid=142514fa-5717-4039-ba00-894a4dfddeb8

This feasibility of this issue will be discussed in future versions. Thank
you for the suggestion.

-Sat [MSFT]

I think you would get a lot more ACT users to convert to BCM 2007 if you fix
the date conversion so that notes, histories convert with their original
creation date rather than the tranfer date as it does now. A number of us ACT
users have years of important history that is only useful if it is converted
with the original creation date. I am aware that you can pay to have the data
converted correctly, but that little give me of having the data conversion
wizard do it might be the tipping point for some more Office 2007 sales. I am
in that category.

Thanks,
Peter

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[Thatch]

There is a site http://www.act-to-bcm.com that specializes on converting data
from ACT! to Outlook and all the dates/attachments/etc. are maintained
properly.

T

Hi Sat,

Thanks for the info and link. It would be nice if you could get this fix
into the next service pack.

Hi Peter,

There was a similar discussion:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...deb8&mid=142514fa-5717-4039-ba00-894a4dfddeb8

This feasibility of this issue will be discussed in future versions. Thank
you for the suggestion.

-Sat [MSFT]

I think you would get a lot more ACT users to convert to BCM 2007 if you fix
the date conversion so that notes, histories convert with their original
creation date rather than the tranfer date as it does now. A number of us ACT
users have years of important history that is only useful if it is converted
with the original creation date. I am aware that you can pay to have the data
converted correctly, but that little give me of having the data conversion
wizard do it might be the tipping point for some more Office 2007 sales. I am
in that category.

Thanks,
Peter

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[Dempewolff]

Thanks for the reply. I am familiar with that site. As I recall there was
various options and most of them require more money than I was willing to
pay. I decided to bite the bullet and not worry about the notes/date; I
transferred all of my data to Outlook. I miss some of the functionality; I do
not miss having to upgrade every year due to compatibility with ACT and ACT
for Palm program. I don't know if they (ACT) do it now, but before they would
upgrage the main program but it would not be compatible with the previous
versions of ACT for Palm; then they would upgrade that program and with in a
few months they would come out with a new version of the main program that
was not compatible with previous versions of ACT for Palm... frustrating. Now
I sync Outlook with my smartphone and for the most part everything is OK. -
Peter

There is a site http://www.act-to-bcm.com that specializes on converting data
from ACT! to Outlook and all the dates/attachments/etc. are maintained
properly.

T

Hi Sat,

Thanks for the info and link. It would be nice if you could get this fix
into the next service pack.

Hi Peter,

There was a similar discussion:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...deb8&mid=142514fa-5717-4039-ba00-894a4dfddeb8

This feasibility of this issue will be discussed in future versions. Thank
you for the suggestion.

-Sat [MSFT]

:

I think you would get a lot more ACT users to convert to BCM 2007 if you fix
the date conversion so that notes, histories convert with their original
creation date rather than the tranfer date as it does now. A number of us ACT
users have years of important history that is only useful if it is converted
with the original creation date. I am aware that you can pay to have the data
converted correctly, but that little give me of having the data conversion
wizard do it might be the tipping point for some more Office 2007 sales. I am
in that category.

Thanks,
Peter

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http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...-04afd2b990be&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.bcm