First of all, *THANK YOU!* Your help is greatly appreciated.

Sue, I do mean the usual notes field used in Outlook for a contact.
What I have been doing so far is copy/pasting the entries from our old
database (in excel format) into Outlook, and I had been hoping that
there was some way to match up names to contacts and map those notes
directly to that field. Are we talking about the same thing? If so,
what you're saying is that I should just slow down a bit and get those
notes in?

Are you or anyone else aware of a utility that would let me get these
notes into Outlook? I used the import/export built into outlook and
was able to map *one* field to the notes field. If I can somehow
import more contacts on top of the ones we have in without creating
duplicates, I should be able to get the notes in.

Thanks again !

-Jake