Russ, I was using Microsoft ActiveSync 4.5 software with Outlook 2003 on XP
Professional on my old Notebook. To transfer from one computer to another
Microsoft provide transfer software. The Microsoft transfer software
provided by VISTA is the VISTA Backup and Restore Centre. As instructed I
copied the VISTA Backup and Restore Centre software utility to my XP Notebook
- I ran it as instructed which created a Transfer Log and then, as
instructed, I Restored this to my Vista Notebook. That transferred my
contacts into Outlook 2007. Thereafter I have synced using the only software
that works with VISTA which is Microsoft's Mobile device Centre. This keeps
my contacts current with my Smartphone mobile computer. As needed, I have
tried to forward emails received to addresses in my contacts by clicking on
the "To" field which takes me to "name select" in contacts and then clicking
on the recipient’s name and hitting send.

All very simple & straight forward and as Microsoft instructs us to do..

So as I understand it Russ, you say that Microsoft's Mobile device Centre is
crap and not 10% as good as Microsoft ActiveSync 4.5? If so, I agree with
you.

What is the solution being offered by Microsoft?? I would expect with such
a basic problem as this that Microsoft would be bending over backwards to fix
it - but they aren’t?? Why?

Russ, do you have the answer?

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

More details on how you are selecting the recipients, how you copied the
data, and how you configured the Outlook Address Book are required even to
start on this one.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Richard Sargeant" wrote in
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Russ,

Unfortunately I have exactly the same problems as Dave, using exactly the
same software versions. In my case, mindful of problems I've previously
experienced with old format and/or corrupted pst files, when I upgraded
from
Outlook 2003 I created a shiny new empty pst file. Then I opened the old
2003
pst file and copied everything from it to my new file. Finally I closed
the
old file. Now, under conditions I haven't quite got my finger on yet,
Outlook
loops on send/receive, the message is not sent and I have to terminate
Outlook.

And yes, I too have a Windows Mobile device, 2003R2 in my case. But I
deleted everything from it before setting up a new partnership and filling
it
with the contents of my new pst file.

So there seems to be more to this than problems caused by importing or
synchronising.

RS