Import contacts from Outlook 2004 (win) to Entourage (mac)

[mau-hage]

Hi everyone.

I experience difficulties importing contact from Outlook 2004 on my pc
into Entourage on my intel-mac. The file I exported in Outlook 2004 is
a "winmail.dat" and the Import-wizard in Entourage does not recognise
the file.

Can anyone help me on this? I have 300 contacts and I cant spend hours
adding them manually.
Thanks in advance!

Best regards,
Baard

 

[Michael Rose]

Hi Baard,

Outlook2Mac -- $10 -- http://www.littlemachines.com/

There are other ways (most straightforward is to export from Outlook as
a tab-delimited or Excel file) but this is easiest.

Of course, if you use Exchange, there is no step 3.

--Mike

 

[D]

Hi everyone.

I experience difficulties importing contact from Outlook 2004 on my pc
into Entourage on my intel-mac. The file I exported in Outlook 2004 is
a "winmail.dat" and the Import-wizard in Entourage does not recognise
the file.

Can anyone help me on this? I have 300 contacts and I cant spend hours
adding them manually.
Thanks in advance!

Select the contacts in Outlook. Find the "forward as vcard" menu item.
I forget which menue it's in but it is in there since I did a couple of
weeks ago. Then either send the resuling large email to your mac or
(better) drag the vcards out of the mail into a folder on the PC (it
will take a while if lots of contacts) desk top and transfer this
folder by whatever means you like to the Mac. Drag the vcards into the
contacts pane of entourage. Thats it. I did it with 1000+ contacts the
other day.

Cheers

D

 

[Diane Ross]

I experience difficulties importing contact from Outlook 2004 on my pc
into Entourage on my intel-mac. The file I exported in Outlook 2004 is
a "winmail.dat" and the Import-wizard in Entourage does not recognise
the file.

Can anyone help me on this? I have 300 contacts and I cant spend hours
adding them manually.

See the Cross Platform section for help:

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/cross_platform/index.html>