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We're seeing a lot of questions (and complaints) about the new iCloud service and Outlook integration. Users with POP3 accounts seem to have the most problems (but could benefit the most from iCloud), since the data is local to one computer and iCloud moves it all into the cloud. We have solutions to many of the problems.

The Company Name field in Outlook's Contacts are limited to 40 characters when you use the Outlook Hotmail Connector and the Notes field is limited to 1024 characters.

Some smart phones are unable to dial numbers that contain other characters, including the plus sign Outlook adds to phone numbers. Learn how to prevent Outlook from formatting phone numbers.