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The contact fields tab allows you to map fields in Outlook to different fields in ACT!, Field remapping. This is specially useful when you have many user defined fields that you want to bring over to ACT!.  
 
 
 
 
 
The fields are of 4 different types:

"s" – String

"d" – Date

"n" – Number

"p" – Phone number

It is recommended that you when performing the conversion, the field types be the same.
 
Mapping/Unmapping Fields  
 
 
 
 
To Map a field over do the following:  

1.

Check mark the field you want to remap

2.

Select the ACT! field

3.

Select the Outlook field from the list. If the field is not listed and/or is a user defined field, click on the Retrieve Outlook User Defined Fields to retrieve the field from Outlook.

4.

Click on the < button to remap the field

 
To Unmap a field:  

1.

Select the field (step 2)

2.

Click on the > to move the field back to Outlook

 
Retrieving User Defined Outlook Fields  

All Outlook User Defined Fields are displayed in Bold in the field list. Outlook-To-ACT Professional allows the user to retrieve user defined fields that exist in Outlook.
 
Retrieve User Properties from Existing Contacts.  
If you have Outlook contacts that have the user defined fields that you want, you can search Outlook for these fields using this option. This option creates a screen that displays all the contacts in the Outlook Contact Database and when you click on the contact, it will display the user fields defined for that contact  
 
 
 
By clicking on the contact, this screen displays the user defined fields found for the contact. Note: if the user defined field has an empty value, Outlook does not see it as a user defined field and it will not appear in the list!

To add these user fields to the list of user fields that you want to create, select the Add Outlook User Fields button.