This is contrary to what I've been told by at least 15 reps at Microsoft over
the years prior to the export when I was dealing with the corruption.
Anyway, it doesn't matter at this point, that act was taken 1-2 years ago.
There is no going back. Now I am just looking for insight into the strange
behavior of the import imposing styles on the notes field.

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

FWIW, this would never be a method for restoring a corrupted PST file.
Importing never restores data. It changes it, as you have proven once again.
If you need to restore a damaged PST file that IRT can't fix, create a new
PST and copy the data you need from the old to the new. Never use import.
--
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"Tier 3 Questions" wrote in
message ...
When I did it 2 years ago it would because of pst corruption that was not
remedied by scanpst. I have an absurdly large rolodex with over 10K
contacts
so this is sort of a major deal that it changed all my notes.

Not sure why you are not able to reproduce. Microsoft was on a call with
me
today and they were able to reproduce. I would attach before and after if
I
could.

"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:

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
message ...
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.