Why Use ACT-To-Outlook Professional NEW Edition
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ACT-To-Outlook Professional NEW Edition is designed for users that have an active ACT! database and want to transfer data from the ACT! database to the Outlook folders with modifications that make the data in Outlook more accessible and relevant. In addition, Outlook folder sharing and intelligent multi-user management makes this product the leading solution to share your ACT! Data with Outlook.

Major Features

Ease of Use
Install, and you are ready to go. Merge and folder flexibility allows you to keep your ACT! Contacts updated with your Outlook.

Multi-User Support
ACT-To-Outlook Professional - 2007 Edition supports ACT! Multi-User configurations and properly converts the activities relating to all the users enabled to be converted.

ACT! Versions Supported
ACT-To-Outlook Professional - NEW Edition supports ACT! 2005/2006/2007/2008.

Outlook Versions Supported

Outlook 2000 SR-* and above, Outlook 2002, 2003 and 2007are all supported.
Field Conversion Capabilities
All the fields in ACT! can be converted, whether they are standard fields or user defined fields. In addition, fields that are mapped to Outlook Custom forms are also converted.

Field Remapping Capabilities
All fields in ACT! can be remapped to Outlook fields, whether these fields exist in Outlook or not. The field remapping is maintained if you exit ACT-To-Outlook Professional NEW Edition.

ACT! Items Converted
The following ACT! Items are converted to Outlook equivalents:
·Todo's - ACT! Todo's are converted into Outlook Tasks with the same time-reoccurring properties.  
·Calls - ACT! Calls are converted into equivalent Outlook Calendar.  
·Meetings - ACT! meetings are converted into Outlook Calendar.  
·History/Notes - All ACT! history items can be converted into the Outlook contact body text. All attachments and note ownership are converted and can be viewed in the contact's body text.  
·Attachments - Note and History attachments are converted into Outlook Embedded Attachments that can be viewed directly from the contact body text.  
·ACT! Email. ACT! Email is converted into Outlook .msg format (excluding embedded attachments).  
 
Attachments
No longer are attachments lost in the conversion. All attachments are added to the contact body text where you can see it and open it with the click of a button.

Selective Conversion

You can choose to convert All, Group, or Calendar.

Group Conversion

You can select contacts belonging to an ACT! group and convert only the group.
State-of-the-art duplicate checking
When you first want to convert your ACT! database into an existing Outlook contact folder, we check for corresponding contacts according to the following criteria:
·If it exists on our index database and if it has been transferred to Outlook.  
·Email Address.  
·First and Last Name and City  
·Company Name and City  

Outlook Item Move Capability
With our system, you can convert locally and then move the items (contacts, calendar and tasks) into another Outlook folder with no resulting duplicates when converting again.

Once the first conversion has been made, ACT-To-Outlook Professional NEW Edition keeps a 1-to-1 match between the ACT! database and the corresponding Outlook item so that no duplicates are ever created.

Unparalleled Outlook Support
Our close support of Outlook with ACT-To-Outlook Professional NEW Edition allows you to convert ACT! databases to Outlook 2000, 2002, 2003, and 2007. In addition, No Outlook Security Warnings messages are displayed during the conversion. Simply click on the convert all button and all the data is then converted.

Special Features
ACT-To-Outlook Professional NEW Edition has a wide variety of very attractive features that facilitate the bridge between ACT! and Outlook:
·Merge the multiple address fields from ACT! into Outlook  
·Add the ACT! phone number extension into Outlook equivalent.  
·Remove the country code that comes with the ACT! phone number  
·Format the Phone number for Outlook  
·Selectively convert History and Notes by type  
·Unsurpassed reliability.  
 
Folder Sharing
Each ACT! User can have its own set of independent folders. However, if you would like for all the users to share say, the Calendar in Outlook, you can setup the Calls and Meetings to be shared in the Calendar. Each calendar item's subject line is denoted with the owner.

Speed
Our new indexing mechanism speeds up same item conversion by up to 2000% faster than competing products. You no longer have to wait forever to convert all the users.

PDA Specific Enhancements
Our subject line modifiers make this product ideal for users that want to synchronize with PDA's. By inserting contact specific data in the subject line, it makes it much easier for users to access their calendar/task items in Outlook as well as on the PDA.

Evaluation Period
ACT-To-Outlook Professional NEW Edition provides users with 15 days evaluation or 100 contacts whichever comes first.