Many thanks for all this strongly appreciated help. Indeed, it seems that
there is something with the csv format. It was generated by Outlook 2003, on
my XP office desktop. The strange thing is that Thunderbird and Scalc (Star
Offfice spreadsheet) properly imports it (scalc pointing that it is comma
spearated), but neither Excel nor Windows Mail, which both display it as a
single field with "Name","Fisrt Name",... displaying commas, but not
interpreting them.
It might be that it comes from the regional settings (I am in France), since
the file is generated and read on different machines, but I could not figure
where to change it in Vista settings.
Indeed it is not tab separated, since this is another option in Outlook
export.
I also tried to go through LDIF format, which Windows Mail can import,
generating it in Thunderbird; it worked well for some dozens of contacts, but
it suddenly failed, creating import errors. I am now trying to generate Works
database format... I am nealry desperate, as you might see!
Thanks again for your help and for any idea.
--
Olivier
"Karl Timmermans" wrote:
> Focusing in on a key element of this problem where you wrote "it sees all
> the headlines as one field"
>
> Do you in fact have a properly constructed CSV file (if in North America -
> each field name would be separated by a comma - else it would be separated
> by the list separator character as defined in your regional settings
> depending on what country your in)? You don't have a tab-delimited file do
> you by any chance?
>
> Since I don't use Vista or Vista WebMail on a day to day basis decided to
> test a CSV import using a CSV file created by an Outlook export on our Vista
> test system for my own curiousity and it worked just as advertised. When all
> the fields in a header row are seen as a single field, usually means that
> the file is not constructed as expected or it is constructed using a
> separator character which differs from what the (importing) system is
> expecting. Would be totally amazed if something as fundamental as a CSV
> import did not work without there being some underlying cause related to the
> data itself.
>
> Just a thought given that the other responses seem to accept the premise
> that the problem is that the import function doesn't correctly recognize a
> CSV file.
>
> Karl
>
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> "Olivier"
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> news:D19FEC32-C146-413D-A740-DB57878549E6@microsoft.com...>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to export my Outlook 2003 contacts to my new Vista laptop, wch only
>> runs Windows Mail (Vista Contacts). I tried the csv files, but the import
>> function does not recognize it properly (it sees all the headlines as one
>> field) (surprisingly, it works welle with Thunderbird, but my telephone
>> sync
>> tool does not recognize Thunderbird...).
>> Is there any better way than using csv?
>> --
>> Olivier
>
>
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