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Old November 2nd 08, 05:15 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Diane Poremsky [MVP]
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Default CSV Import Bug

Why are you exporting to CSV only to import back into outlook? You should
only export when you need it in a different format.

I can't repro it - everything looks fine here.

In tools, options, mail format, stationery and fonts, do you have arial
selected?

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"Tier 3 Questions" wrote in
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When exporting contacts from Outlook 2007 to CSV and importing back into a
new PST or folder, the import does some very strange things to the notes
field.

Try a test, just create 1 contact.
1. In the notes field, enter a couple lines of text, seperated by a
carriage
return.
2. A couple lines down, Type "Bulleted List" and then on the next three
lines enter the bullets "bullet 1," "bullet 2," and "bullet 3."
3. Last, another couple lines down, type "Numbered List" and again, on the
following 3 lines, "number 1," "number 2," and "number 3.
4. Now export to CSV and then import into a new folder.

If your Outlook behaves the way mine does, it will actually apply unwanted
styles (I know, I didn't know that styles existed in Outlook either, I
thought it was just a Word thing). For those unfamiliar with Styles, this
is
preset font, size, color, paragraph size, etc. And it applies it in an
way
that does not seem to make any sense.

I notified Microsof of the problem the first month that 2007 was released,
they acknowledged the bug and here we are about 2 years later and the
problem
still exists.

Does anyone have any insight into this problem? Specifically, I'd like to
at least return the styles to the default arial 10. Can it be done
through
some style sheets somewhere, some normal.doc, some alternate export/import
approach? Even better, if there is a location where these style settings
reside, I'd like to modify them. Unfortunately, the styles for each
contact
seem to be sometimes related to one another and other times unrelated, so
there are at least multiple places where these contact notes styles are
stored.


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