Motorola V600
Syncing with Outlook
I have just purchased a V600. I was told that this phone will sync w/Outlook which was my primary reason for buying it. I now realize that I'll need a cable or Bluetooth adapter to accomplish this. My question is: What can and can't the phone do w/Outlook? Can I have tasks? Will I have appointments? What about the contacts?
Thanks.
Thanks.
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Contacts will transfer, but only phone numbers and email addresses move over to the phone (street address and the myriad of other fields do not exist in the phone address book). Strangely enough, a few of my categories moved as well - so certain contacts had categories already there. It seems that the phone does not accept the category tag when the same contact has several categories assigned to it).
Calendar events and alarms also move over. Tasks do not.
Since I only use Outlook for email, I created a filter in my PIM for contacts that I wanted in my phone, and exported them to Outlook prior to my first sync.
Calendar-wise, the only appointments I have in there are the ones you can't avoid putting in outlook, like when I accept...
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Calendar events and alarms also move over. Tasks do not.
Since I only use Outlook for email, I created a filter in my PIM for contacts that I wanted in my phone, and exported them to Outlook prior to my first sync.
Calendar-wise, the only appointments I have in there are the ones you can't avoid putting in outlook, like when I accept...
(continues)
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