Ah, you didn't mention that they were user defined fields - makes it hard to
export. It is late here in CA so let me sleep on it.

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After furious head scratching, EastAsia asked:

| Milly,
| I think I am missing something.
|
| If I show the "user defined columns" in the phone list view, then
| pull them off the page, it just removes them from the view, but it
| doesn't remove the data from the contacts.
|
| I tried to export to Excel, but it doesn't allow me to map the custom
| user defined fields...
|
| I'm still stuck with a ton of "user defined fields" that these sync
| programs have dropped into my contacts...
|
| Is there any other ideas?
|
| Thanks for your time.
|
| tRL
|
|
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| wrote in message
| ...
|| Display your contacts by phone list and remove the columns you don't
|| need by
|| clicking on them and moving them off the column bar. You can also
|| export to
|| Excel and remove the columns from there as well - it gives you the
|| full view
|| without as much left-right scrolling.
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|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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|| After furious head scratching, EastAsia asked:
||
||| How do I clean up bloated contacts?
|||
||| Years of syncing with palm and other software has caused lots of
||| excess fields in the contacts, and adding significantly to their
||| size.
|||
||| Is there any software that can automatically delete these
||| unnecessary, excess fields?
|||
||| tRL