Hello everybody,

I just joined this community and this is my first email.

I am sure these three question must have been posted a hundred times before but I couldn't find the answers in the preliminary search I did here. Please feel free to redirect me to any video or tutorial site for my issue....

I want to know the steps (at least rough steps) to transfer my address book from excel 2003 to outlook so that I can get it finally into my iphone. I don't know how can I tell outlook or excel that the column A has the 'first names', column B has the 'last names' column C has the Phone no. and so on.

Moreover, my excel sheets have so many columns eg, "no. of children" and "the school they went to" which are not there in Outlook at all.. I want ALL the contacts in my outlook to have these two additional fields.. How can I do that in bulk and not add these two fields manually for each contact??

Also I want to be able to save all the contact information from outlook back to some kind of file on my external hard disk.... for backup you know...

Please give me steps for these three tasks...(most important is the first one of course... I am struggling since I got the iPhone on the 11th.)

Cheers,
Charles.