palmdoc

The contacts on my Dell Axim are kept in sync with my Treo650 as the Treo syncs with Outlook.
My problem is that many of my contacts have more than one mobile phone number and while the Treo and Palm Desktop can easily cope with this, Outlook 2003 is very restrictive in allowing only 1 mobile number.
(This is one of the main reasons why I prefer to maintim PIM management on my Palm - not only is it more comprehensive and flexible it is more efficient.)

Any suggestions for additional mobile phone numbers in the Contacts?

MleB

Outlook sucks.

There. It had to be said and acknowledged.

For all its pretention as a 'corporate' PIM, there are glaring failures and omissions (such as the one you noted) that simply make one wonder 'What were they thinking?'

The considerably 'liter' and user-intuitive Palm Desktop and PIM is far more effective and flexible in the info it allows a user to store and view - and if there is one thing I regret about moving to PPC it is certainly not Dell or even the dodgy OS upgrades, it is the loss of Palm Desktop....

You can, as you know, within Outlook (and in full-size Contacts window) choose from the drop-down arrows next to the phone number fields the name of each field - but then it is not necessarily visible within the Contacts list, depending on which view you use or which columns you've set as visible. And the drop-down (as you've discovered) only allows for one Mobile number, so I guess using Other is the only real option for multiples of that.

Then having done that, on your PDA you will want to set which number is the default view in the phone list. Only one allowed.

Others may come to the defense of Outlook (poor deluded wretches that they are) and/or suggest 3rd Party programs for the PDA - but not, alas, for the Desktop - but there is little one can do with Outlook that is actually useful.

palmdoc

Thanks for your feedback. I concur. Outlook (and Pocket Outlook) sucks as far as PIM management goes. This is the main reason why I still depend on my Treo650 and PalmOS for my PIM needs - more efficient and more flexible.
Trouble with the Mobile phone number issue is that many of my contacts have more than one mobile number and sending SMS messages is troublesome from my Dell Axim if I need to use their alternative numbers. What a pain! So unfortunately my Dell is relegated to other things like games, some reading and generally non-critical applications :P

MleB

Heresy it may be on this site, but there are days when I pine for a Palm, the included Docs2Go and Palm Desktop.

While the Axim's power may be swell for games and graphics, it suffers from an OS (and desktop portal) that appears thrown together with as little thought as possible.

Not a great partner for Dell, either.