Thread: sync SPECIFIC outlook (2007) contacts

Hi,
Anyone help a noob? I was given an HTC Desire by the company. I plugged it into the PC and hey presto the phone was full of CR4P!

I now have a list of contacts about 500 long, 400 of whom I have no idea who they are!
People who have sent me emails offers or bought things off.

Anyone know of a way I can go through this list (on the PC?) and say Yes I want, No I don't want. OR create a list only of people I want on the sync list.

I thought smartphones were to make life easier. I have to trawl through God knows how many useless unknown contacts before I can find mates.

I know I can have faves, but I don't want to carry 400 dead names, it ruins the line of my clothes carrying all that extra weight.
Cheers.


Before anyone suggests RTFM, I have and there is NO mention in all 211 pages of the possibility of selective syncing

I assume that Sync is taking the contents of your corporate contact list. If you have a personal set of contacts in Outlook, separate to the corporate list, you should be able to go to the Sync set up and select this as the source for the contact synchronisation.

If you only have one set of contacts in Outlook, then so far as HTC Sync is concerned, you're stuffed.

Your best option would probably be to sync all the contacts on your phone with Google then turn off the Outlook contact sync completely in HTC Sync.

After that, you need to delete the contacts you don't want in Google. I don't use the Google contacts so I'm not sure how you do that, but presumably there's way to do it from your PC browser.

Thanks, I did wonder if the word was stuffed.

I have a corporate address boook (Only) it looks like what I'll have to do is set up a personal address book and sync to that. (more work)

This is my second update, the first was a rant so long I got timed out!

I have come to the conclusion that the HTC phone I have been given, a phone so powerful it has more computing capacity than the first astronauts had, is a pile of JUNK!

Why so?

Well I got a new company phone a lovely shiny HTC Desire (hereafter known as piece of junk) Said piece of junk had lights and bells and polyphonic / real music ringtones.

After the shinyness rubbed off the despair, nay dislike set in.

My trusty discarded Nokia 6310 is beckoning, it may not have to wait much longer before it gets a second go...

I looked at the manual, you can synchronise your Outlook contacts great I'll do that!

Later...
Sync sync sync, oooh look I've synched my contacts, oh sh.. 500 of them, who the ... are all these people?

Damn, it seems I cannot pick and choose, well post a query, some helpful suggestions thanks folks, this may be possible. No it's not.

I cannot add a personal address book to Outlook (more junk) because I have 2007 and this is not possible with this version, oh.

Ok more Googling, you CAN have a mobile address book YAAAAAY! problem solved, NOT.

You can add a mobile device sync address book to outlook, and it will, after creatiion even autocopy all contacts to it that have a mobile number in the mobile number field.

see this link - google it www . brighthub.com / computing / windows-platform / articles/14137.aspx

REALLY USEFUL!!!! well no, my aged Granny does NOT have a mobile, she's deef and only uses a landline.

If I put her landline in the mobile field then she will go into the mobile contact list ok, but she will display on the piece of junk as having a mobile number. No good.

Now call me a nitpicker, but that is rubbish. Somewhere someone, either an HTC developer, or (AND) a Microsoft developer did not sit down and think, Hmmm.
How can I make my products really USEFUL AND INTUITIVE THAT WILL DO WHAT THE USERS WANT?

Aaaaaargh!

I still may live with having landlines in mobiles fields but does anyone know how I can select a specific file to sync with the piece of junk?

In the sync options you can pick your default address book but I cannot find the new Mobile contacts book that Outlook 2007 lets me create, can anyone help? Before the Nokia has to come back.

Thanks in adv, sorry for the rant, but I am losing the will to live, having fallen for the salespersons hype about an easier life, it has not appeared.
McP