Yes, if I manually open a contact record, 'alter' the birthday field or
anything so that the system detects a change and save the record, that
particular record will have a calendar entry. However, I do not want to do
this for all of my 2000+ contacts! Is there a way or workaround that I can
employ? Can I copy the contacts into a PST and then copy back into my
mailbox contacts?

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
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I know of no way to do so automatically.
If you just open a Contact Record in question and save it, do the dates
not show up on the calendar then?
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"dindo fernando" wrote in message
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To be honest, I did not know that I could synchronize my Palm device to
Outlook (I was using a Palm m505 by the way).

Anyway, since I have already done the import via CSV, is there a way for
me re-establish the 'connections' such that my contacts' birthdays and
anniversaries are shown in my Calendar? If none, can anyone suggest a
third-party software that can help me do this?


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
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Outlook maintains many connections among Outlook Items. That's how it
derives views like Activities, Journal, and the automatic display of
Contact's birthdays and anniversaries in the Calendar.
All connections are lost whenever you import Outlook data.
My question was why you had to import Outlook data. Palm is able to
synchronize Outlook data.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"dindo fernando" wrote in message
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Sorry for not being clear. I had to export my contacts from Palm
Desktop to a CSV file, and then import the CSV file into Outlook 2003.

Can you clarify what you mean by 'connections'? Is there a
'connection' established between the calendar and address book to
reflect the birthday entries in the address book as a calendar entry?

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
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One of the many well documented limitations of importing. All
connections are lost.
Why was it necessary for you to use an intermediary format to transfer
these Contacts? Could you not synchronize them?
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Dindo Fernando" wrote in
message ...
I've recently migrated my contacts from Palm Desktop to Outlook 2003
by first
exporting to a CSV file and then importing into Outlook. I noticed
that not
all of my contacts with entries in the birthday field showed up in my
Outlook
calendar.

My first thought was the formatting (missing year) was the problem,
so I bit
the bullet and put in the year for those contacts without year
entries for
their birthdays in the CSV files and re-imported. However this did
not fix
the problem.

Anyone have any ideas on what I did wrong or how I can fix this
problem?