Paul,

What do you want the new program to do?  You haven't given us a very good
picture of what you need.

Are you just looking for a simple address book?  Do you want to be able to
perform mail merges, or print envelopes/labels?  Will this be a contact
management system?  Do you need to schedule appointments and have those
appointments linked to the person?

Transferring your current address file depends on TWO things.
#1 The current format of the address list.
   Did you use the address book within Word?
   Or is this just a normal text file (*.DOC)?
   If it's a doc file, then how did you lay it out?
   First Middle Last name or Last First Middle.... etc.

#2 The import capabilities of the new program.
   Until you decide on a program, this will remain a big question mark.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: PCSOFT - Personal Computer software discussion list
> On Behalf Of Paul Tiwana
>
>
> I have a long list of addresses of my contacts, typed in MS Word.
> I want to transfer it to some address book. Can somebody please suggest a
> good address Book.
>
> Is Outlook that comes with IE5 good enough for the purpose ? I
> can see the problem of not matching fields in Outlook. My list
> does not have field names like Firstname, Lastname, address 1  etc.
> I am avoiding the retyping work, if an import command can help.
> Thanx
>

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