HOW-TO: Export your IE Favorites to ListPro

[Jon Westfall]

Use List Pro to Store your IE Favorites!
Ok, If you're like me, you have about a billion IE Favorites, and know full well that if you delete any of them, you'll pay for it later. But, at the same time, who wants a cluttered up favorites list? IE natively lets you export your favorites to an HTML file, through File -> Import and Export, but wouldn't it be nice to setup a Listpro list of your favorites' titles and urls? Its possible... here is the path:
What you Need:
ListPro installed and working properly.
Some IE Favorites
A Freeware Application called Bookmark Wizard 2.0.0, available at download.com
Excel, or something capable of reading XLS files (Don't have the world's most popular office suite or don't want to pay for it? Try OpenOffice! - it can read Office Files (and write them), and is...uh... FREE))
Some Patience.

Step 1 - Getting Ready
Install Bookmark Wizard 2.0.0
Setup a new list in Listpro for your Favorites (Mine's called "Favorites" - original eh?) Open up List Properties and add 2 new custom fields as shown below:
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Run BookMark Wizard 2.0.0, and choose the Options Drop-down menu, and then Import/Export. Make sure you set up the export to use Excel files. Your screen should look like this:
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Generate your exported File and open it in Excel.
Choose File -> Save As... and save the file in txt format (Tab-Delimited). Excel will pop up about ninety warning boxes about how you'll lose all the wonderful formatting. Just choose Yes and once you're done, exit Excel
Step 2 - The Actual Import
Open Listpro, select the pre-setup list you created in step 2 above, and choose "Import from File" in the Tools Menu.
Set up the Import dialog as it appears below:
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Choose Ok, and select the file you created with Excel (the txt file) in Step 5 above.
If all goes well, you should easily import all your favorites into Good Old Listpro, making them fully searchable and with you at all times on your trusty PDA.

Hope some find this useful. If you liked it, feel free to email (http://bugjr.com/email.php) me (Jon Westfall) and tell me. I figure, this is a small way for me to give back to a community that has done so much for me. For convience, I've posted this on my website as well.

[Possum48]

Just got done putting my Favorites in ListPro. Will come in handy from time to time when I am at a computer other than my own or my laptop.

Now I can just look up the URL and go to some of my most visited websites including PPCThoughts.

Only one thing though, need to update the export/import when I add or delete entries to my Favorites.

Thanks again,

[pocketpcfox]

Hey, I totally agree with the above opinions of Listpro. It really is useful. If I may, I would like to offer another method of keeping one's bookmarks handy when on another computer (and they're just a click away) -- importing your favourites to a yahoo or hotmail account. The former I can vouch for. Very simple to import 'em and access them from the MyYahoo page.

Just my 2 cents...

[Jon Westfall]

That's a nice method, but it takes longer to load and requires net access. Usually, those are also hyperlinked. In my situation, i needed the actual URL to give to someone if they asked "Hey, what's a good site to find information regarding xxx" and It wasn't a simple whatever.com name. Thanks for the input.