Palm Tungsten T5 manual Importing information from other applications

CHAPTER 5 Moving and Managing Info Between Your Handheld and Your Computer

Tip

Palm Desktop Help has lots of information about importing from other applications, including step-by-step instructions. Open the Help menu in Palm Desktop software and select Palm Desktop Help for more details.

Importing information from other applications

Do you have information on your computer in spreadsheets or databases and want to transfer it to your handheld? Don’t spend time retyping it. Instead, import the info into Palm Desktop software.

Palm Desktop software can import the following types of files:

Calendar vCal/iCal (VCS/ICS) and Calendar archive (DBA)

Contacts vCard (VCF), comma-delimited (CSV, TXT), tab-delimited (TAB, TSV, TXT), Contacts archive (ABA)

Memos Comma-delimited (CSV, TXT), tab-delimited (TAB, TSV, TXT), Memos archive (MPA), Text (TXT)

Tasks Tasks archive (TDA)

WINDOWS ONLY

1	Save the file on your computer in one of the accepted formats.
2	Import the file into Palm Desktop software:
	a. Double-click the Palm Desktop icon on your computer desktop.

b. Click the icon in the launch bar for the application you want to import the information into.

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