Importing address book data

[Rudolf Hecken]

Can somebody give me a hint how I can import data from the ŒAddress Book¹
into Entourage?

 

[William Smith]

Can somebody give me a hint how I can import data from the ‘Address
Book’ into Entourage?

Hi Rudolf!

You can do this a few ways.

If you want to do just a few contacts you can simply drag each one from
Address Book to your Desktop. Then drag those into the Address Book in
Entourage.

If you want to do everything the easiest method is to sync. Go to the
Entourage menu --> Preferences... --> General Preferences --> Sync
Services and enable syncing for the Address Book. Follow the prompts to
replace everything in Entourage, replace everything in Address Book or
merge data.

Hope this helps!

--

bill

William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows
Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>

 

[Diane Ross]

Can somebody give me a hint how I can import data from the ŒAddress Book¹ into
Entourage?

Are you referring to Apple¹s Address Book? Easy way is to turn on Sync
Services in Entourage. Look in preferences --> Sync Services.

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

 

[Chris Maher]

Can somebody tell me how to import my Outlook for PC address book and calendar into Mac Entourage?

 

[Mickey Stevens]

If you use an Exchange account, simply make sure that all of the data is on
the Exchange Server calendar and address book. Then, in Entourage,
configure your Exchange account in Tools > Accounts, and wait for your
calendar events and contacts to import. Once that's finished, you can drag
them to the local ("On My Computer") calendar and address book to save them
locally.

If you don't have access to an Exchange Server, check out Paul Berkowitz's
"Export-Import Entourage" script package.
http://www.scriptbuilders.net/search.php?search_str=Export-Import+Entourage

 

[Diane Ross]

Can somebody tell me how to import my Outlook for PC address book and calendar
into Mac Entourage?

Contacts:

Entourage can import a .csv file. Just select the option in Outlook to
export as .csv or text file. In Entourage select the Import --> Contacts
from a text file --> tab delimited file and navigate to the .csv file.

Outlook2Mac...$10

<http://www.littlemachines.com/>

Transfer Windows® Outlook® email, contacts, and calendar appointments from
your PC to your Macintosh® computer! See this MacTech article for more info
on using Outlook2Mac.

<http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.22/22.10/OutlookAndEntour/index
..html>

Use Paul Berkowitz's Export-Import Scripts (shareware). Download here

<http://www.scriptbuilders.net/search.php?search_str=Export-Import+Entourage
Links for Contacts and Calendar:

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/cross_platform/win_mac.html#transfer_contacts
_cal>

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

I am able to import contacts from apple address book to entourage, but
have not been able to import groups. Is this possible to do?

Not really, at least not through SyncServices.
The Sync Entourage-Address Book 2 scripts from Paul Berkowitz can help
though,

Corentin

 

[CG]

I cannot beleive this isn't seamless...I have spent hours trying to get my Outlook Express Address book into my mac Entourage...nothing works...I am so fed up with programmers who can;t recall what it is like not to know everything there is and who constantly skips steps they think are elementary....some of us need the basics...like what the hell is the difference bewteen a contact and an address?? Are they different? Why do I need a vCard? Why can't I just copy the address book and import it? Grrrrrr!! I would love a SIMPLE step by step from OUTLOOK on my PC to my MAC with OSX

 

[Diane Ross]

I cannot beleive this isn't seamless...

First, please keep in mind that these newsgroups are peer-to-peer. There
isn't much we can do. The best way is to send feedback to Microsoft .

When working in Office, you can use the ³Send Feedback² option under the
Help menu in all of the Office applications.