RickR
04-06-2004, 09:27 AM
Okay, I just got my 2215 yesterday, and am in the process of setting things up. It appears that the only method of synchronizing contacts and calendars is through MS Outlook. Now, I use Outlook at work all the time, but /not/ for the stuff I kept in my Palm PDA. Outlook has work contacts and their emails and work calendar events; my Palm (and the Palm Desktop) has personal and work contacts with their phone numbers and some addresses, and personal (and some work) calendar events.
I really don't care about /synchronizing/ my contacts and events with Outlook, in fact I don't want to. But what I /do/ want is a quick and easy way to view, edit, type, add contact entries on my PC, send or synchronize that with my iPAQ, and do the same at home.
I tried adding a second profile in Outlook, but it's so clumsy to use, I already miss my Palm Desktop. I also tried exporting my Palm data, but the only file format available cannot seem to be imported into Outlook, even if I wanted to do that. I /can/ export all my Palm contacts to an Excel spreadsheet or Word or Notepad, which might provide a means to import it into another program.
Oh, I have no interest in receiving email or surfing the net on my PDA; I have far better methods of doing that. I just want to use something equivalent to the Contacts, Calendar and probably Tasks portion of Outlook.
Anyhow, is there another program, equivalent to the Palm Desktop, that can manage this? A program I can use just to edit, add, backup, etc. my contacts (especially) and events (secondary)?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I really don't care about /synchronizing/ my contacts and events with Outlook, in fact I don't want to. But what I /do/ want is a quick and easy way to view, edit, type, add contact entries on my PC, send or synchronize that with my iPAQ, and do the same at home.
I tried adding a second profile in Outlook, but it's so clumsy to use, I already miss my Palm Desktop. I also tried exporting my Palm data, but the only file format available cannot seem to be imported into Outlook, even if I wanted to do that. I /can/ export all my Palm contacts to an Excel spreadsheet or Word or Notepad, which might provide a means to import it into another program.
Oh, I have no interest in receiving email or surfing the net on my PDA; I have far better methods of doing that. I just want to use something equivalent to the Contacts, Calendar and probably Tasks portion of Outlook.
Anyhow, is there another program, equivalent to the Palm Desktop, that can manage this? A program I can use just to edit, add, backup, etc. my contacts (especially) and events (secondary)?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.