Russ
thanks for the reply. i found a bit of VB script on a MS support
site and created a new form so users can select the directory
the contacts are in, and have them resorted as required

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Derived fields are never populated correctly with importing of Contacts. You
should check with Karl Timmermans and the folks at ContactGenie to see if
they have come up with any solutions for this:
http://www.contactgenie.com:80/
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"kevin129" wrote in message
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Outlook 2003. win xp pro sp2.
we have an excel sheet with approx 750 contacts listed with 11 column
headings named exactly as fields mapped for import (some cells are empty).
we
have tried both excel and CSV import options.
although `company' is checked as our `file as' option. when imported, both
options
produce different results. Excel imports only imports 227 contacts and
dosnt
`file as' company. CSV imports all 750 but still dosnt `file as' company.
any
thoughts?