I got things to work through lots of trial and error, and the technique is pretty obscure. It turns out that I don't need to use any quotes at all. I changed the separator character to a semicolon, but I don't think that was required, and the comma probably would have worked just as well. I'm guessing that quotes are needed only if one of the field values contains the separator character. The file that now works looks like the following:
First Name;Last Name;Home Phone;Mobile Phone;Work Phone;User Defined 1;User Defined 2
Name;;;;800-222-4444
Another;Name;;;602-456-7890
Yet Another;Name;602-432-8765
Name with;Email;480-888-0001;480-999-7766;;jim@someplace.com;jim@vzw.blackberry.net
Another Email;Name;;;602-345-6789;john@noplace.net
Here is the secret: Change the last two column headings from
Email 1 and
Email 2 to
User Defined 1 and
User Defined 2. Then in the Blackberry Desktop Manager, click
Synchronize, then the
Configuration tab, then
Configure synch..., then select just
Address Book and click it, then click
Setup..., then select
ASCII Importer/Exporter and click
Next>, then choose the options you want and click
Next>, then click
Options... and again choose your options and click
OK, then specify the location of your ASCII input file on your PC and click
Next>, then click
Finish. Now click
Advanced... and then
Map Fields... Here's the key: Map the fields you want to import (designated by a left-pointing arrow between the
Device column on the left and the
ASCII Importer/Exporter column on the right. I mapped the field names
First Name,
Last Name,
Work Phone,
Home Phone, and
Mobile Phone on the right to the same field names on the left. However, I mapped
User Defined 1 and
User Defined 2 on the right to
Internet Address1 and
Internet Address2 on the left. This mapping did indeed cause the fields I called
User Defined 1 and
User Defined 2 in my ASCII file to be imported into the Blackberry as email addresses. At least once I used the names
Internet Address1 and
Internet Address2 as headings in my ASCII file without doing the mixed-up field name mapping, but that didn't work. This was almost as bad as drilling for an oil well!
--Jim--