Work order: Backup your data and you won't regret
	... It was likely you accidentally deleted the working directory. Just remind you, it is basic business practice to backup your data (make extra copy of the data and store it somewhere else), and OC has supported variety of backup methods. Even if you decide to use spreadsheet, I wish you may grow a habit of backing up data.... more » By supp...@fonlow.com  - Apr 2 - 1 new of 1 message

	Convert people to companies
	... ...Go to [Main menu -> Layouts] and select "People and Companies", and you can record a company. To convert a personal contact to organizational contact, select the contact in the People list, and run [Main menu -> Tools -> Convert selected people to companies]. By supp...@fonlow.com  - Mar 24 - 1 new of 1 message

	Import from Outlook, disk crash? (work order)
	... Hi Jimmy Glad you sorted out such hardware problem, you are certainly better than many system engineers graduated from a few certificate training courses. Anyway, I just made a Beta version that will stop at the first error when importing Outlook, and prompt a message. Please tell me the... more » By supp...@fonlow.com  - Mar 24 - 1 new of 1 message

	Quick View (Work order)
	...The Quick View window is basically an embedded Internet Explorer, which might follow the default encoding scheme of IE. You just need to right click on the View, in the Popup menu, select encoding -> Unicode (UTF8). By supp...@fonlow.com  - Mar 24 - 1 new of 1 message

Import from Outlook (Work order)

...Hi Jimmy Thanks for prompting the bug. We just improve the error handling for importing Outlook contacts. When an error occurs, it will capture the error, and go on. At the end, you will see an error message indicating which contacts were having problem, in this case, you may find out which contacts may contain invalid character and fix it in... more » By supp...@fonlow.com  - Mar 24 - 1 new of 1 message

	View this page "Discussion between the users and the support"
	Click on [link] - or copy & paste it into your browser's address bar if that doesn't work. By supp...@fonlow.com  - Mar 24 - 1 new of 1 message

	I just hoped to get some xml - files for customerlists maybe with connected companies
	Hi out there, I really enjoy working with open contacts. But everytime I have to do a report of customers, or other groups with people / and companies I et in troubles. Is there a help out there maybe with an xml file to test some things? Thanks for your feedback,. Greeetings from Germany,... more » By buchtrinker  - Mar 16 - 1 new of 1 message

	Q&A update
	[link] Q&A Q: I'm German and as you know, we use "umlaute" in our language (ü,ä,ö). Entering the data everything seems to be ok, but if I'd like to use the quickview, then I just see strange characters instead of the umlaute. A: This is something related to the encoding of Internet Explorer.... more » By supp...@fonlow.com  - Feb 26 - 1 new of 1 message

	This forum is open today for users of Open Contacts
	Open Contacts v5.1 is released on 26th of February, 2008. Open Contacts was designed to be an advanced address book program, with rich features for contact management. Many of these features have never been seen in other conventional address book programs, thereby are needed for advanced management of contact info.... more » By supp...@fonlow.com  - Feb 26 - 1 message