Yep that about sums it all up. OE's Personal Tab doesn't even get exported
at all, so I now have no expectation of Outlook being able to import it.
About the only reason I started using the personal info was because Mom would
talk about someone and I wouldn't have a clue who it was. "Oh, you know your
cousin's son's daughter's first husband." I need a genealogy program. Dad
came from a family of 10 kids, Mom's family had 4 kids. The family tree from
my grandparents on down to date would probably be larger than a lot of
companies.

I know the analogy breaks down once you get away from the Office
"integration." Sadly consumer logic and marketing logic aren't the same
animal. Outlook does give me more options and flexibility for export than OE
does though. I've used Outlook at work before but never had to set it up for
myself. At home I use the rest of Office programs for little projects but
used OE for email. Looks like I've got a lot fun (?) learning to do with
Outlook.

With my luck 911 would only call me to see if I was going to pay the
neighbors ambulance bill.

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

So everything was imported into Outlook except what was stored in OE's
Personal Tab, right?
And none of that information was exported to the CSV file either, right?
I've not seen this reported, but it would not surprise me in the least. I
also suspect not many users have that Personal Tab filled out so the issue
has not been reported often enough to make it onto the radar screen. This is
an OE issue, so we never run into it here.

Sadly, your analogy with Office in terms of integration between apps breaks
down here. Outlook and OE have two completely different development teams
who clearly are not acquainted with one another and never speak or even know
what the other is doing. So things like this crop up all the time. Come to
think of it, even Outlook's integration with the other Office apps would
have to improve a bit just to be rated "poor." Just try to get a mail merge
to work right the first time, or use the "New Letter to Contact Wizard."

Sorry I misread your post the first time. It was after my bedtime and I only
saw the first few lines. I thought you were complaining that Outlook didn't
have a Personal Tab like OE. I didn't see the part that explained that it
was an import failure. I do not, however, call 911 when someone has a heart
attack. 911 calls me.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Randy1701" wrote in message
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Okay, I first started in Outlook:
1. Went to File, Import & Export
2. Got the Wizard and chose Import Internet Mail & Addresses
3. Got Outlook Import Tool and chose Outlook Express 4.x, 5.x, 6.x also
made
sure only Import Address Book was checked.
4. Next page was choices involving how to handle duplicates, first time I
went with the default, which was probably to allow them. Then clicked
finish.
5. Next page was Import Summary which showed how many addresses were
imported (which was all of them), 0 distribution lists (which I had none
anyway). Choices were Save In Inbox or OK. I chose OK.
6. Result in Outlook was that the Contacts now contained all of the info
from my OE
address book underthe appropriate tabs, except that no personal info
showed
up (i.e. Birthdays, Spouse, Children, Gender, Anniversary).

As you suggested I tried an Export from OE, results were enlightening:
1. I chose to export the address book as a CSV file and chose a name &
location.
2. Next, the Wizard went to the CSV Export box which said "Select the
fields
you wish to export" Not all were checked so I checked all just to see
results. None of those selectable fields had anything to do with personal
info. Only thing that could ever be personal would have been "notes."
3. Clicked finish. Got the message saying the file had been exported
successfully.
4. Used Excel to view file. All the selected fields were there with
proper
info, but as now expected nothing from personal info.
5. Didn't try to import into Outlook since I know the info I'm trying to
get
won't be there anyway.

So, it does look like I can't get there from here. At least not with MS
software functions. Only choice will be to retype the info in unless some
3rd party has written something to strip "all" the info from OE. I did
add
some personal info into the Outlook Contacts and then export the address
book
contacts to both a CSV and regular Excel file and Excel does get all of
the
fields from both, not limited and also able to select which ones to export
through the wizard. So I know that once the info is in Outlook Contacts
it
is shareable with other Office Programs.

Thanks for your time and interest. Anything else you might think of to
help? I know I need to learn how to organize my contacts anyway to
separate
the business and personal, any links you could suggest?
"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

List the steps by which you are importing.
If you export from OE to CSV, do all of these details export to that
file?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]