How to Export Ent 08 Contact to Yahoo Mail

[aRKay]

I will be on a number of trips this summer without my Mac
and will have to use the ATT/Yahoo Web Mail. I would like
to know if there is any way to Export my Entouage 12.0.1
addresses to the Yahoo Mail.

aRKay

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

I will be on a number of trips this summer without my Mac
and will have to use the ATT/Yahoo Web Mail. I would like
to know if there is any way to Export my Entouage 12.0.1
addresses to the Yahoo Mail.

I suspect you can export to a tabulated text file and hopefully, Yahoo
Mail can use this to import the contacts.

Corentin

 

[Diane Ross]

I will be on a number of trips this summer without my Mac
and will have to use the ATT/Yahoo Web Mail. I would like
to know if there is any way to Export my Entouage 12.0.1
addresses to the Yahoo Mail.

Yahoo help should explain what form they will import. Usually it's a
text/tab delimited file or .csv.

How to export contacts:

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/import_export/contacts.html#import_contacts>

 

[aRKay]

I suspect you can export to a tabulated text file and hopefully, Yahoo
Mail can use this to import the contacts.

Corentin

Exporting was no problem but there is nothing I could find
on the ATT/Yahoo web mail page about importing such a file.

Surely I am not the first person to want to transfer Entourage
2008 contact to their Yahoo web mail account.

 

[Diane Ross]

Exporting was no problem but there is nothing I could find
on the ATT/Yahoo web mail page about importing such a file.

Surely I am not the first person to want to transfer Entourage
2008 contact to their Yahoo web mail account.

Google search found these two options:

To import contacts:

On your Yahoo! Mail page, Options in the upper-right corner and select Mail
Options.

From the list on the left side, click Contacts Options

Under ³Management², click Import/Export.

Follow the steps to import addresses from whichever account you choose.

============
1. Choose the Export Contacts command from Entourage's File menu. You can
export contacts as a text file only. Do so.

2. Open the text file you just exported in Excel.

3. Select Save As from Excel's File menu and choose CSV (Windows) from the
Format pop-up menu found in the Save As dialog box.

4. Click Save.

5. Dash to your Yahoo email account, click the Addresses link, and then
click the Import Your Contacts From Another Application link.

6. In the Yahoo! Address Book page chose Microsoft Outlook (.CSV) from the
Step 1 pop-up menu, navigate to the .csv file you recently saved, and click
the Import Now button.

Your contacts will be imported into Yahoo's Address Book. "}

 

[aRKay]

Google search found these two options:

To import contacts:

On your Yahoo! Mail page, Options in the upper-right corner and select Mail
Options.

From the list on the left side, click Contacts Options

Under ³Management², click Import/Export.

Follow the steps to import addresses from whichever account you choose.

============
1. Choose the Export Contacts command from Entourage's File menu. You can
export contacts as a text file only. Do so.

2. Open the text file you just exported in Excel.

3. Select Save As from Excel's File menu and choose CSV (Windows) from the
Format pop-up menu found in the Save As dialog box.

4. Click Save.

5. Dash to your Yahoo email account, click the Addresses link, and then
click the Import Your Contacts From Another Application link.

6. In the Yahoo! Address Book page chose Microsoft Outlook (.CSV) from the
Step 1 pop-up menu, navigate to the .csv file you recently saved, and click
the Import Now button.

Your contacts will be imported into Yahoo's Address Book. "}

I have save your text and will give it a shot.

thanks

 

[aRKay]

Google search found these two options:

To import contacts:

On your Yahoo! Mail page, Options in the upper-right corner and select Mail
Options.

From the list on the left side, click Contacts Options

Under ³Management², click Import/Export.

Follow the steps to import addresses from whichever account you choose.

============
1. Choose the Export Contacts command from Entourage's File menu. You can
export contacts as a text file only. Do so.

2. Open the text file you just exported in Excel.

3. Select Save As from Excel's File menu and choose CSV (Windows) from the
Format pop-up menu found in the Save As dialog box.

4. Click Save.

5. Dash to your Yahoo email account, click the Addresses link, and then
click the Import Your Contacts From Another Application link.

6. In the Yahoo! Address Book page chose Microsoft Outlook (.CSV) from the
Step 1 pop-up menu, navigate to the .csv file you recently saved, and click
the Import Now button.

Your contacts will be imported into Yahoo's Address Book. "}

It was good idea but it did not work. I was able to import the .cvs file
to ATT/Yahoo but it only imported the names. No email addresses or
other stuff.

Back to the drawing board. I am now trying to figure out how to ditch
the imported list of names.

 

[aRKay]

Google search found these two options:

To import contacts:

On your Yahoo! Mail page, Options in the upper-right corner and select Mail
Options.

From the list on the left side, click Contacts Options

Under ³Management², click Import/Export.

Follow the steps to import addresses from whichever account you choose.

============
1. Choose the Export Contacts command from Entourage's File menu. You can
export contacts as a text file only. Do so.

2. Open the text file you just exported in Excel.

3. Select Save As from Excel's File menu and choose CSV (Windows) from the
Format pop-up menu found in the Save As dialog box.

4. Click Save.

5. Dash to your Yahoo email account, click the Addresses link, and then
click the Import Your Contacts From Another Application link.

6. In the Yahoo! Address Book page chose Microsoft Outlook (.CSV) from the
Step 1 pop-up menu, navigate to the .csv file you recently saved, and click
the Import Now button.

Your contacts will be imported into Yahoo's Address Book. "}

It was good idea but it did not work. I was able to import the .cvs file
to ATT/Yahoo but it only imported the names. No email addresses or
other stuff.

Back to the drawing board. I figured out how to delete the contacts
and plan to start over again

stay tuned

 

[aRKay]

It was good idea but it did not work. I was able to import the .cvs file
to ATT/Yahoo but it only imported the names. No email addresses or
other stuff.

Back to the drawing board. I figured out how to delete the contacts
and plan to start over again

stay tuned

I just tried it again and it did not work. The problem is
neither Entourage or Excel 2008 have an export or Save
As option that will import to the ATT/Yahoo mailer.

The CSV (Windows) option in Excel is not on the list. Yahoo
expects Microsoft Outlook (.CSV) that is not an Excel
or Entourage option.

 

[aRKay]

This posting is the sad ending to the shaggy-dog story. The bottom
line is some things in life are just too hard and not worth the trouble.

I just got off the telephone with the ATT/Yahoo 2nd Tier Technical
Support Specialist and we both concluded it is just too hard.

The simple version of the long shaggy dog story is the contact data
exported from Entourage 2008 cannot be imported to the ATT/Yahoo
web mail. I even opened the Entourage exported (tab delimited)
text file with Excel 2008 and Saved As a Window Comma Separated
(.csv) file. The ATT/Yahoo web mail imported the .csv file; however,
only the names made the trip. All other data was stripped.

Too bad Entourage 2008 does not have export a Microsoft Outlook
(.CSV) option that the ATT/Yahoo should be able to accept. The Yahoo
page say it will import iCard (.VCF) formats but I got tired of messing
with it.

End of the story. I am adding some of my addresses one at a time using
the old Mac copy/paste trick. The good news is this exercise forced me
to clean up my Entourage 2008 Address Book.

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

The simple version of the long shaggy dog story is the contact data
exported from Entourage 2008 cannot be imported to the ATT/Yahoo
web mail. I even opened the Entourage exported (tab delimited)
text file with Excel 2008 and Saved As a Window Comma Separated
(.csv) file. The ATT/Yahoo web mail imported the .csv file; however,
only the names made the trip. All other data was stripped.

I suspect that the file had cr (carriage returns) instead of hte
expected crlf (line-feeds) for the end of lines.
You can open the file in TextWrangler (BareBOnes.com - free) and the
little menu on the bottom of the window will convert the file format for
you.

I've had similar problems with another similar webmail befaore and that
fixed the issue. I can't believe they make it so complicated though :-(

Corentin

 

[Diane Ross]

I've had similar problems with another similar webmail befaore and that
fixed the issue. I can't believe they make it so complicated though :-(

I just ran into a similar situation with Comcast last night. I received an
email that my account was being used to forward spam and it was locked down.
The gave me several links to help fix the problem and get my mail going
again.

First was to download the free virus software. It was Windows only.

The remaining links either gave me blank pages or pages that would only
partially load. So here is my ISP provider that doesn't even support web
pages that are viewable on a Mac. For years I have battled them to get
access to my "pay online page". It just won't open on a Mac.

I ended up calling and they had me change the SMTP port from 25 to 587. Now
why didn't they just put that in the email and save me the time I wasted?

Big business, big government...a pox on them!

 

[Mickey Stevens]

Check out Paul Berkowitz's "Export-Import Entourage" script package.
http://www.scriptbuilders.net/search.php?search_str=Export-Import+Entourage

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Check out Paul Berkowitz's "Export-Import Entourage" script package.

Paul's scripts export to anything you need, but I don't believe it
offers you the text-encoding (LF, CR...) options.
As I was saying though, TextWrangler (free) does.

Corentin

 

[dhortonjr]

Paul's scripts export to anything you need, but I don't believe it
offers you the text-encoding (LF, CR...) options.
As I was saying though, TextWrangler (free) does.

Corentin

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this may be a little too late, but this is alot easier than it seems.
the reason why you could never get your email address to import into
yahoo mail was because the email field between the 2 are different.
so here is what you do...

first thing you are going to want to do is export a blank sheet from
yahoo, that way you have all the correct field names. after that,
export your contact list from entourage, the same way that everyone
has been saying in the past messages. open the .txt file in excel,
from there all you have to do, is copy and paste any field from the
entourage export into the new blank yahoo sheet, but NOT the header
names, just the names, phone numbers, EMAIL ADDRESSES, whatever you
want in yahoo. from there, save you new yahoo import sheet, and use
that to import into yahoo mail. all your field names will be correct,
and yahoo will be able to import it all!

good luck!