Exporting/​Importing Contacts-k​eeping "note" formatting​?

Question

I export/import the same Contacts for mass editing in Access. No matter whether I use csv, tab or text, I lose the formatting of the notes when I import them back into Palm Desktop.
I'm beginning to believe that Palm destroys note formatting upon import. I understand that Excel itself destroys all formatting within a cell and, therefore, is a poor choice for exporting/importing if one has long formatted notes. But with Access, I wasn't using Excel during export nor import.
Has anyone ever exported/imported the same contact and maintained the note formatting? Is so, what did you use and how did you do it.
Post relates to: Treo 680 (Unlocked GSM)

Answer 1

Same thing happens to me and here is what I discovered: Either Hotsync or Palm Desktop 4.1.4 destroys formatting of memos (or contacts export). Here is how I found this: I created a memo from an application in my palm with tab delimitations between each fields. I check the memo in my palm and everything is ok. I Hotsync, got to my memo in Palm Desktop, Copy the memo, and try to paste in Excel. Bam! Not working. After trying multiple ways to do that, I copied the same memo in Word and forced to view the invisible characters. Bam! (again ;-)) No more tabs. All tabulations were replaced with 4 or 5 spaces. No wonder why I could not paste in Excel. The older version of Palm Desktop did not have this problem. To make sure that my memo was fine from the get go, I beamed (IrDA) it directly to my laptop (wich is equipped with IrDA) and copy-pasted the same memo in Excel. Voila! It worked.
So either it is the Hotsync or Palm Desktop that ruins formatting.
I tried this with my very old PalmPilot Personnal and my brand new Palm TX.