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ActiveSync, Outlook 2003 and email format (WINMAIL.DAT issue

I have ActiveSync 4.2.0 and it is giving me a lot of trouble with WINMAIL.DAT files. I will start from the beginning...
I recently realised that some friends cannot read my emails with attachments sento from my laptop with Outlook 2003. After a long serach i realised that in the general Outlook options the mail format is set to "Let Outlook decide" but for every single contact the email properties are set to "Send as RTF". So I started changing back to "Let Outlook decide" for every contact, just to realise that, after a sync betweem Outlook and my PPC (QTEK S200, WM5, ActiveSync 4.2.0) the winmail.dat problem came back again. So I went to check and, guess what: all the contacts that I had modified and had to be syncronised, had set back the property set to "Send as RTF".
So, it looks like ActiveSync is setting by default, for every contact syncronised, the sending format to RTF, whatever is the value of the property in Outlook.
ANy idea?

Contacts losing "File As" in outlook when PUSHed

Basically, when a contact is added to the phone, when you view it in Outlook it has no name specified in the "File As" field and thus has no nave viewable on the contact card. Has anyone experienced this?

contacts first name sorting

where is the option for sorting contacts by first name and not by last as this is the default. i searched in options and everything.

I also cudn't figure out the same.........someone, let us know the trick

If you sync your contacts via outlook. You cannot do it on the phone. You need to go to each contact in outlook and then change the "files as" to First name then last name. Once done just resync. That all names in your address book on the phone will be first name then last name.

NOT true. Goto outlook and do this:
Extra > Options > First tab (Voorkeuren in dutch) > Options for contact persons
You can setup the name there and after the next sync its all good.

outlook folder created after sync

Hi guys. Really need some help here. I have been using this forum for a while now and have found some amazing information that has really helped, but I cannot seem to sort this problem out. I have had this problem for about one and a half years and just learnt to live with it. I have asked on microsoft forums and no one can really help. I think it is the way I am trying to explain it or something I am doing wrong in the setup of outlook.
On my computer I have Office Outlook 2007 with a hotmail and tiscali email accounts within Outlook. On my phone (Xperia X1. Have tried Win Mob 6.1, 6.5) I had a Tiscali and hotmail account which I could send/receive from. After using active sync there is now an "outlook" folder on my phone. Every time I sync it moves my emails from tiscali to outlook on my phone (i supose because they are in my tiscali folder in outlook on my PC). The problem I have is that I cannot send/receive from the outlook folder on my phone. So If I want to reply to a message that is on my phone I have to copy and paste it back into a tiscali mail.
The outlook "folder" on my phone is an account.... i think?.... as it comes up in the account list along with tiscali, sms/ mms, hotmail and new account.
If I go into the tiscali one, i hit "menu" down the bottom and then I can hit "send/receive". This is all fine.
If I go into my outlook one i hit "menu" and "send/receive" is greyed out.
If I go "tools", "options" and select the outlook account the only screen I get is "e mail sync options" where I can select a few item regarding downloading from my laptop when I sync.
If I do the same in the tiscali account I can edit account setup, send and receive schedule etc.
???? I am lost!!
Thanks, Tristan

[Q] New Xoom user...import Outlook Contacts

hello-
I tried the search function for the Xoom for this question but no dice:
http://motorola-xoom-tablet-help.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-to-sync-xoom-with-outlook-via.html
I used the above link to try to import contacts from Outlook into my Xoom. In the instructions, it says to make a comma separated values file, which I did, and import into my Xoom, which I did.
On the third step, it says the following: 3. On your Xoom tablet, log into the Google account and select Gmail > Conacts and import the CSV file to transfer contacts.
So I opened my gmail account (the envelope with the M partially in it), but I don't see a Gmail ->Contacts selection anywhere, so I'm a bit lost.
Anyway, I have the outlook CSV excel file on my Xoom. How do I get these contacts on my Xoom, or should I be doing this a different way?
Thanks!

The way I did it was log on to googlemail via Windows XP. I clicked onto contacts in Google Mail and then under "More Actions" there is an "Import" option. I imported my CSV file from there
And then I synced my device.
I hope this helps

Shoober said:
The way I did it was log on to googlemail via Windows XP. I clicked onto contacts in Google Mail and then under "More Actions" there is an "Import" option. I imported my CSV file from there
And then I synced my device.
I hope this helps
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Ah, you did it on the main computer. I was doing it on Xoom....or at least trying to. I'll give that a try when I get home. Thanks!

I use My Phone Explorer.
With it I get my Outlook contacts and Calendar in my Xoom.