can you synchronize tower and laptop contacts in 2003?

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Mike Hollywood

Hi,
I'm runnin outlook 2003 sp1 on both computers.
I want to copy the contacts fm the tower to the laptop, but I don't want the
tower data to overwrite the data on the laptop for same names because the
data on the laptop is current.
Can this be done?
Thanks,
alex
 
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Take a look here, it may help:
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/sync.htm


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After furious head scratching, Mike Hollywood asked:

| Hi,
| I'm runnin outlook 2003 sp1 on both computers.
| I want to copy the contacts fm the tower to the laptop, but I don't
| want the tower data to overwrite the data on the laptop for same
| names because the data on the laptop is current.
| Can this be done?
| Thanks,
| alex
 
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Mike Hollywood

thanks for the link. I spent some time there. It's absolutly amazing to me
that microsoft hasn't built in a one click sync button in outlook 2003 to
sync a tower and laptop. According to the link, there are millions of
people in my situation all inventing their own wheel on this issue.
I'm using the export to excel feature to marry the files.



"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
 
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

There are 2 schools of thought here.

1. Microsoft leaves some utilities for 3rd party vendors to program and
thereby enriches others and the software industry, encouraging innovation
and revenue to others.

2. Microsoft is lazy and can't program its own platform to make it easy for
me to do xxxxxxx.

Oh, and there is always the third one - "Microsoft just sux."


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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Mike Hollywood asked:

| thanks for the link. I spent some time there. It's absolutly
| amazing to me that microsoft hasn't built in a one click sync button
| in outlook 2003 to sync a tower and laptop. According to the link,
| there are millions of people in my situation all inventing their own
| wheel on this issue.
| I'm using the export to excel feature to marry the files.
|
|
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| || Take a look here, it may help:
|| http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/sync.htm
||
||
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|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
|| the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my
|| personal account will be deleted without reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Mike Hollywood asked:
||
||| Hi,
||| I'm runnin outlook 2003 sp1 on both computers.
||| I want to copy the contacts fm the tower to the laptop, but I don't
||| want the tower data to overwrite the data on the laptop for same
||| names because the data on the laptop is current.
||| Can this be done?
||| Thanks,
||| alex
 
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Brian Tillman

Mike Hollywood said:
I'm using the export to excel feature to marry the files.

The recommended approach is to create a new PST (File>New>Outlook Data
File), copy the Contacts folder to it (right-click>Copy), close it
(right-click>Close), close Outlook, and then transport that PST to the other
machine. Once on the other machine and after removing the read-only
attribute, if it's enabled, open it in Outlook with FIle>Open>Outlook Data
File.
 
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