HELP !!!
i am a new android user, came for iOS
i want a free way to transfer my over 300 notes :crying: to my new hTc one android 4.2.2 ?
N.B: the notes are also stored on outlook on my PC
i found a way to transfer the notes to .txt
using this method:
Export Outlook Notes to Document Files
There are a lot of people who want a free way to export their Outlook notes to separate document files. Here is a step by step method of exporting those notes. It may seem tricky, but it really is simple and should take all of 5 minutes to complete. The actual export happens so quickly you will be astonished. The notes will be exported into Word or text documents with the same name as the notes.
Please understand that Windows does not allow many special characters in file names, so you will need to manually remove any special characters like <.>:"/\|?* from your note name before the conversion. The following device names are also restricted from use as file names by Windows and should not be the name of a note: CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9. To help you out, the code I provided will automatically replace any "/" or "\" characters with a "-". The rest is up to you to rename manually or you may alter the code to convert even more restricted characters or names.
Create a folder on the root (main part) your C: drive named "Notes". It is important that this folder be on the root of the C: drive.
Open Outlook.
After Outlook opens, click on the top bar of the Outlook window next to the name Microsoft Outlook.
Press ALT-F11 which will open Outlook's Visual Basic window. If it does not open, be sure you clicked on the top bar of the Outlook window and press ALT-F11 again.
On the top toolbar, click on Insert and Module. You should see a new window pane open labeled Project1, Module1.
Copy the code you find listed below in this article and paste it in the Module1 window pane. If you wish to export to a document that can be opened in Word (rich text format), use the NotesToRTF code. If you wish to export to text files, use the NotesToText code.
On the top toolbar, click on Run and then click on "Run Sub/Userform".
A window will pop up asking you to select the folder where your Outlook Notes are located. For most people, this will simply be your normal Outlook Notes folder. Select the Notes folder and then select OK. [More advanced users may select different note folders they may have created, following these steps over and over until all their notes are exported.]
The Notes will quickly be exported at this point. "Running" will appear next to "Microsoft Visual Basic" window name at the top of the screen and disappear when the notes are exported. You may see it flash for a second if you have just a few notes. For hundreds or thousands of notes, it will take longer. Wait for "Running" to go away and you may proceed.
Close the Microsoft Visual Basic window.
Close Outlook. You will receive a popup window asking if you want to save the VBA project. Answer No.
Look in the Notes folder on the C: drive to find your notes.
If you received a "Run time error", click End and then check the following:
Did you use a restricted character or name in a note?
Did you REALLY name the folder Notes in the ROOT of the C: drive?
Fix the folder name and then go back to the Microsoft Visual Basic window and click on Run and then "Run Sub/Userform" again.
The code is proven and should work every time when you follow the directions. If it still fails, I suspect you may have a corrupted Outlook data file. There are many Hub pages that address how to fix the problem. Simply search for "scanpst" and follow the directions listed in the page.
NotesToRTF Code
Sub NotesToRTF()
Set myNote = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI").PickFolder
For cnt = 1 To myNote.Items.Count
noteName = Replace(Replace(myNote.Items(cnt).Subject, "/", "-"), "\", "-")
myNote.Items(cnt).SaveAs "c:\notes\" & noteName & ".rtf", OlSaveAsType.olRTF
Next
End Sub
NotesToText Code:
Sub NotesToText()
Set myNote = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI").PickFolder
For cnt = 1 To myNote.Items.Count
noteName = Replace(Replace(myNote.Items(cnt).Subject, "/", "-"), "\", "-")
myNote.Items(cnt).SaveAs "c:\notes\" & noteName & ".txt", OlSaveAsType.olTXT
Next
End Sub
then i put them onto the phone and opened the notes through the phone using a file manager
if anyone has any other ideas please reply
Thanks for sharring this.
A good file manger i found and now use is called ''File Expert HD'' from Play Store.
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Hey does anyone know how to get all the contacts that are listed in my Gmail account onto my phone so that when i compose new messages i dont have to type a person's entire email address?
It seems like there has to be a way but i can't quite figure it out.
Thanks!
I'm sticking my neck out a bit here, but I think this will work
Load up your Gmail account on your PC, and go to Contacts; over on the top right of the contacts display is an "Export" link. This opens a new window, with two choices - pick the one that says "export to Outlook" and then save the file it generates somewhere on your PC. If you don't want every single contact imported to the phone, edit the .CSV file with Notepad (or whatever) and delete the lines containing the contacts you don't want. When you're done editing, save the file back as a .CSC file with the same name. That's the easy bit, now comes some fun
Use ActiveSync to copy the .CSC file to somewhere on your phone - the Storage Card is probably as good a place as any......then,
....use DotFred's "PPC PIM Backup" utility - get it from HERE - on your phone and select "Restore" from the drop down list on the first screen. Then navigate to where you saved the .CSC file on your phone and select "Next". You will then see a screen similar to the one attached - make sure you select "Comma" as the field delimiter and then tap Next to import the contact data...
CAVEAT: If you have contacts already stored on your phone, use PPCPIMbackup to take a backup of them first.....just in case this procedure f*&ks things up completely (as I said at the beginning, it should work!!).
You should now have all your Gmail contacts on your phone and you can edit them with the phone's Contacts application so they look (maybe) a bit more presentable...
Hope this is of some help
Mark.
I cannot get my TyTN II to stop sync'ing Files. It works perfectly with Contacts and Calendar, only taking a few moments to up-date the changes, but when it comes to my files, it will start the sync process, go through all 465 files, finish the sync, and then start the whole process over again about 5 seconds later ... and no changes have been made, either on my PC or on the phone. It will continue to do this over and over again until I unplug the USB cable.
Any ideas?
Peter
I won't profess to know the cause but here's what I've done when I have file synch problems.
On the PC, move all the files to a temporary folder.
Turn off the file synching option.
Reset the phone.
Connect and active synch.
Delete all the files from the my docs folder on the phone.
Reenable file synching
On the PC, move all the files back into the synch folder.
That should clear most of the markers for file synching. There are more detailed things that can be done, but I'd start here. If that doesn't work, I'd delete the partnership and create a new one.
Didn't Work!
Hi, liquidsilver.
Thank you for your quick reply. Sadly, your suggestion didn't work. My files are still syncronizing over and over and over again. It just won't stop.
I'm thinking that it might be in an unending creation date loop. In other words, when a file on my PC gets "sync'd" to my phone, the creation date of the file on the phone is the date and time at the moment it was copied. Then, when the sync program looks at the file on the phone, it sees a newer date compared to the file on my PC, so it starts the sync process again. However, if this theory were true, then the creation dates of the files on my PC would also change, but they don't.
I'm at a loss.
More ...
One more thing, I also deleted the partnership and created a new one. It didn't solve the problem, either.
You can try making the log file read only. The log updates frequently & creates A/S traffic. Go to \Windows\Activesync\CtrlLog.txt & clicl & hold with a good file explorer like resco & select properties, then select "Read Only".
You can also try the "fake Server" hack, that will allow you to set a schedule for syncing. i.e. every hour instead of all the time.
1. Start ActiveSync on your Pocket PC.
2. Tap "Menu", then "Add Server Source"
3. Configure a server source with a fake IP address, id and password - you can enter anything you like, it doesn't matter
4. After that you will notice that "Menu -> Schedule..." item is no longer greyed out.
5. Change your schedule to manual under both fields.
6. You can now delete your fake server - your changes to the schedule will remain in effect.
Many of us have found that SMS/MMS does not work on (xxx) xxx-xxxx phone number formats. mmorman12 has a fix if you use gmail exclusively for contacts.
This is related to mmoorman12's post for changing all phone numbers in gmail to xxx-xxx-xxxx: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8830645&postcount=4081
I know many of you, like myself, use at least one Exchange account with Android. What makes me mad to no end is that Outlook automatically formats phone numbers in a way that it THINKS you want it, regardless of how you give it a formatted file. Here are the essential steps that I took in order to change my 500+ Exchange contact phone numbers from (xxx) xxx-xxxx to xxx-xxx-xxxx for Android's (Cognition 2.x) MMS/SMS little quirk - it should take about 15 minutes.
Read this whole post before you do anything. Make a backup of your Contacts folder before you screw it up. On Outlook 2k10, click the folder view (look for the little folder at the very bottom of the left panel. It goes Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, Notes, Folder List, Shortcuts). Make a new folder anywhere (like Inbox) and right-click drag the Contacts folder to the new folder and COPY it there.
0) In Outlook (or any other mail/contact manager that connects to Exchange), export your contacts to a Windows CSV. In Outlook 2k10, this is under File > Open > Import (yes, click Import to Export to a file. Yay MS.)
1) Use the wizard to export to a Windows CSV. I'm sure other formats will work just fine - this is what I can say worked for me. Export it to your Desktop.
2) Using Excel (or any other free spreadsheet), open the file. I found that for 5 years Outlook has been putting the last name in the first name column and vice versa, and WinMo never had a problem with it. So check to make sure all of the correct data is in the right field. Make any changes to names, etc. now. Save.
3) Close Excel - it locks the file so it must be closed. Using a good text editor (Notepad++ (Free!) or UltraEdit), do a search and replace on the most common area codes you have. For example, I live in central Missouri, so I did a find on "(573) "(note trailing space) and replaced it with "573-". Repeat with all numerous area codes. Don't forget 888, 800, & 866. Save. Catch the one-offs in the next step.
4) Open the CSV back in the spreadsheet program and fix the one-offs. There will like be only a handful. Save and close.
5) This is the most important step because without it, when you import to Outlook, it will just convert xxx-xxx-xxxx back to (xxx) xxx-xxxx. On Win7 (other versions are basically the same), open Control Panel > Phone and Modem > Dialing Rules tab. If you have something there (like "My Location", click edit. Otherwise create a new one.) Change from "United States" or whatever is there to "International Freephone Service". Click OK out of that dialog box. Outlook uses this to determine how to format phone numbers.
6) Import the CSV (File > Open > Import in Outlook 2k10). Click Contacts and you want to overwrite them, unless you really want duplicates.
Warning:
0) Doing this will give you the opportunity to see that Outlook/Exchange may have added a substantial amount of data to the Notes field. If you are like me, this will piss you off.
1) This will delete any photos you have embedded in to your contacts. I recommend saving your contact photos before you do this.
2) You stand the chance of royally jacking up your contact list. Good thing you made a backup (and a second backup to a totally separate PST file ).
I know this is a bit labor intensive, but I literally looked for several hours for a way to do this and only came up with partial solutions. It would have been far quicker to manually change every phone number than all of the research I've done, so I really hope this helps someone else!
If this thread takes off, I'm sure I'll come up with better/easier ways to accomplish this. Reserving for future use.
This must just be a cognition issue? My captivate with stock doesn't seem to have a problem with phone numbers formatted with () from Exchange.
I've seen people with other ROMs on other devices complain about this. DG's Cognition 2.1.x worked fine too. Probably a FroYo refinement...
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
Thanks! Worked great!
You were right, took about 15 minutes (or less?) and was relatively easy. Just follow the steps detailed here and it will clean up your Contacts easily!
Thanks to the OP for this!
Kill those parentheses
Here's hoping fatbas202 is still watching.
I am importing about 4,000 addresses from an ancient address book (Organizer v1) where all of my numbers are in the style +xx xx xxxx xxxx or similar, i.e. leading plus sign, spaces, no hyphens, mostly non-US layout, layout varies according to country standard (about 50-odd countries in toto).
The addresses export to CSV and retain the layout. Yet when I import to Outlook 2010, after changing to International Freephone and rebooting, I get parentheses around the Outlook-presumed area code, e.g. +xx (xx) xxxx xxxx. This is at odds with what you managed to achieve.
To see why my attempt has failed, if I open a contact, Outlook has not posted a stream of digits to "Local Number" but has determined its own country (and dumped my country code digits), put the first few digits in the "Area Code" box and the balance in the "Local Number" box. If I then edit this and put the Area Code digits in the Local Number box I lose the brackets but (a) I also lose all of the spaces which makes the number difficult to read and (b) I can't do this for 4,000 numbers. (I'm also worried that if I ever want to migrate to another address book I will have lost the +CountryCode from the number stream.)
I have searched high and low for a solution to this, do you have any ideas, please? For the record I have tried editing a few of the cells in the CSV (putting in hyphens to see whether these are what allow you to achieve your success) and the CSV considers this a sum and posts a numerical result (unless I put a leading apostrophe). I only did this as a test, I don't actually want the hyphens and I can't edit 4,000 contacts.
Thanks.
I hope it will be usefull for newbie as me, if you have Gmail account your contacts will follow you without using software connections or cable and wifi connections
You can syncronyze your PC contacts (outlook, LG contacts etc....) with your gmail account (with a little search you find how to) and after no problems of synchronization, your contacts will follow you in every MOD, in every android phone
A guide could be
1) save / export your contacts to a csv file on a PC (or similar);
2) save / export your contacts on your phone to a csv file (just use "exports heading to SD" and is created automatically);
3) Turn off any programs that synchronize with gmail (helps to avoid trouble while working at the end you can reactivate all);
3) Import csv thus obtained on gmail contacts;
4) Place your contacts on gmail (eliminating duplicates using "merge", accommodation name and last name .... you know is a big job) NB contact cards do not have the field name (when Google will place this thing??), I suggest you write the contacts by putting "Name" space "Last Name");
5) Delete all the contacts you have on your PC (should now be on gmail);
6) Reset the terminal Android (so you deleted the directory, but this phone is moved, and will ask to reboot again with gmail account in sync);
7) reactivated all synchronizations;
8) Now you have all your contacts at your fingertips on your computer and your terminal Android (on the latter may take some time, I waited a couple of hours);
9) For owners of Android remember that now you have to use only "google contacts" when you add or change a contact, otherwise it will be added to google contacts (basically disabled "sim contacts" and "phone contacts" if you want a backup copy, to the limit, export of SIM or SD Card).
Obviously this is "my" way to resolve the matter, will not be perfect but it worked for me.
CarloIT said:
I hope it will be usefull for newbie as me, if you have Gmail account your contacts will follow you without using software connections or cable and wifi connections
You can syncronyze your PC contacts (outlook, LG contacts etc....) with your gmail account (with a little search you find how to) and after no problems of synchronization, your contacts will follow you in every MOD, in every android phone
A guide could be
1) save / export your contacts to a csv file on a PC (or similar);
2) save / export your contacts on your phone to a csv file (just use "exports heading to SD" and is created automatically);
3) Turn off any programs that synchronize with gmail (helps to avoid trouble while working at the end you can reactivate all);
3) Import csv thus obtained on gmail contacts;
4) Place your contacts on gmail (eliminating duplicates using "merge", accommodation name and last name .... you know is a big job) NB contact cards do not have the field name (when Google will place this thing??), I suggest you write the contacts by putting "Name" space "Last Name");
5) Delete all the contacts you have on your PC (should now be on gmail);
6) Reset the terminal Android (so you deleted the directory, but this phone is moved, and will ask to reboot again with gmail account in sync);
7) reactivated all synchronizations;
8) Now you have all your contacts at your fingertips on your computer and your terminal Android (on the latter may take some time, I waited a couple of hours);
9) For owners of Android remember that now you have to use only "google contacts" when you add or change a contact, otherwise it will be added to google contacts (basically disabled "sim contacts" and "phone contacts" if you want a backup copy, to the limit, export of SIM or SD Card).
Obviously this is "my" way to resolve the matter, will not be perfect but it worked for me.
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in the name of many users ... thank you.
This is indeed very welcome information.
Figured out how to backup myself. But this is way better.
Thanks for sharing the info!
oh thank you, i hope to help someone, with the search too
I like changing ROM once a week so this is the best way
tnx very much for this guide
EXPORT OUTLOOK CONTACTS
In Outlook, click Import and Export from the File menu.
Click Export to a file, then click Next.
Click Comma Separated Values (Windows), then click Next.
In the folder, select the Contacts folder, then click Next.
Navigate to the folder where you want to save the contacts as a csv file.
Type a name for the exported file, then click OK.
Click Next.
click Finish
IMPORTING CONTACTS IN GOOGLE GMAIL
Log on to Gmail, click Contacts at the top of the page.
The contact list will appear in a new page.
Click Import Contacts.
Click Browse and locate the CSV file created using the steps described in the section "Exporting Outlook Contacts" section.
Select the file, then click Import Contacts.
After your contacts are imported, a dialog box that indicates the total number of contacts imported.
Ok, so I am applying to colleges and I was using my HD7. I got some stuff scanned and downloaded it to a PDF to my windows phone. I open my email to send it to the college push attach and the only thing I can attach are pictures? I don't get how a phone designed for business can't attach a PDF file to an E-Mail. Am I doing something wrong?
If you've downloaded them to your Windows Phone then they should show up within the Office App (although it can't open them directly, they should still show up there if you saved the PDF files properly... in order to attach them in an email, within the Office App swipe over until you get to the page labeled "locations" --- select "Phone" and then long press down on the document you need to send... Then simply select "Share" when the popup menu appears... Select your desired method of sharing (email in your case) and the document is now attached... I'm pretty sure you need to have the PDF file saved in the My Documents directory on your phone for this to work... Do some quick searching & I'm sure you'll find out how if you don't already know...
Cheers...