Excel Import of Dates while in Manual Task Mode

It appears that I cannot do an Excel import into start/finish fields for a task that is set to manual mode.  Is this true, or am I overlooking something?
This is annoying.  I am having to import into the temporary fields of start1/finish1, then copy the dates over to start/finish.  Using manual mode is important because it ignores dates and holidays.  If my customer says an activity is to occur
on a Saturday, then so be it; I can't have the tool changing it to Monday.

Hi John -
We have a Customer that has data in a SharePoint list.  Included in this data is start and finish dates.  Of course our preference would be to have this particular Customer join our Project Server instantiation as yet one more PWA user.  However,
there are scores of people that are maintaining this legacy SharePoint list and we are trying to be accomodating to their interface.  To that end, we are trying to devise a process that will allow us to periodically ingest their data into our Server. 
Once in our Server, we can then start creating links from there to the rest of our Enterprise, most likely via Deliverable/Dependency relationships which we have tuned to a fine science with macros.
There are people I know and respect that HATE Manual Mode and think it the worst thing to ever happen to MS Project.  I wouldn't go that far, but my initial impression of the capability was that it seemed to allow the ability to copy/paste a twin
column of start/finish dates from Excel and paste directly into the Project start/finish.  Up until v2010, this was never possible --- copying a date into Start would set a "Start No Earlier Than" constraint and then plunking
a date into finish would then set a "Finish No Earlier Than" constraint and immediatly forget the start date that was just provided!!!! We have known that if you want to copy from Excel into Project, then you need to copy a start date and a duration
and let Project compute the finish, and cross your fingers that the finish date in Project matches the one in the Excel file.  My current impression of the capability is that it still has a way to go to meet expectations.  The fact that there are
smart people on this thread getting different results and none of us knows why is very troubling. 
One more thing I will add about how we use Manual Mode.  We switched our macros that create Depedency links to using manual mode.  We did this for two reasons: (1) people were complaining about all the "Must Start" constraints that
we were setting.  (2) This allowed us to force dates to weekends/holidays without the imposition of a 7-day calendar. Having so much as one record in schedule with Task Calendar set to anything other than "None" then prohibits the ability to
update a schedule in PWA.  We have had tremendous success with using Manual Mode from this perspective.
Regards,
Chris

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