Sync Palm desktop to Address Book

Can I sync contacts from my palm desktop into address book

If you import according my previous post the comments will end up in the note field. You will also get the contact's Palm category in the note field. You may or may not want that info and you would have to manually go through and delete it. You can import another way to have more control over the imported data.
Go into Palm Desktop and export as a "Tab & Return" format. Then go to Address Book and select import "Text File". A window will come up with a list of all the fields in both Address Book and Palm Desktop. You can then select which fields in Address Book the info in Palm Desktop should go into.
One of the down sides to importing this way is that address or phone labels may not be correct. For example, if you have a home phone as the first phone number in one contact's info and a work number in the next contact's info, when they import they will both have the same label. Since they are both the first phone number whatever label you assign in the import window (Home, Work, Other...) will apply to both.
Importing vCards will keep your labels straight. Either method has its plusses and minuses, there is no perfect one.
Hopefully that helps.
Also, you can read this for more info....
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=AddressBook/4.0/en/ad808.html

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