Office XP to Office 2004 Question

[Robin McInnes]

Hi,

I am sure this question has been asked many times, but I've never had
occasion to look at Mac NGs before, so please accept my apologies.

I am a Windows XP user who is contemplating the change to a Mac. I have
Office XP Pro installed on my Windows machine, and I accept that I'll
need to get the Mac Office (Office 2004?) when I change over.

I understand that Word, Excel & Powerpoint files should migrate in a
fairly straightforward manner, but I am less sure about Outlook to
Entourage. (I'm assuming here that Entourage is the Mac 'equivalent' of
Outlook?)

I have been keeping a personal journal for the last two years or so
using the Journal component of Outlook. Would I be able to transfer all
my entries in that over to a Mac Office component, or would I have to
wave them all bye bye?

Cheers,
Robin McInnes
Cheshire, UK

 

[Barry Wainwright [MVP]]

Hi,

I am sure this question has been asked many times, but I've never had
occasion to look at Mac NGs before, so please accept my apologies.

I am a Windows XP user who is contemplating the change to a Mac. I have
Office XP Pro installed on my Windows machine, and I accept that I'll
need to get the Mac Office (Office 2004?) when I change over.

I understand that Word, Excel & Powerpoint files should migrate in a
fairly straightforward manner, but I am less sure about Outlook to
Entourage. (I'm assuming here that Entourage is the Mac 'equivalent' of
Outlook?)

I have been keeping a personal journal for the last two years or so
using the Journal component of Outlook. Would I be able to transfer all
my entries in that over to a Mac Office component, or would I have to
wave them all bye bye?

Cheers,
Robin McInnes
Cheshire, UK

If you have access to an exchange server all that stuff will be accessible
by entourage. If not, Paul Berkowitz has written some very extensive scripts
to transfer data that are available (shareware, $15 I think) at
http://www.macscripter.net

 

[Robin McInnes]

If you have access to an exchange server all that stuff will be accessible
by entourage. If not, Paul Berkowitz has written some very extensive scripts
to transfer data that are available (shareware, $15 I think) at
http://www.macscripter.net

Thanks Barry. I was beginning to think no one here knew the answer to my
question!

The linked site, macscripter, looks very complicated to me but no doubt
I'll sort something out from it as & when I need it.

Cheers,
Robin McInnes
Cheshire, UK

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Thanks Barry. I was beginning to think no one here knew the answer to my
question!

You should also google the Entourage-dedicated group on this question,
you'll find lots of previous posts and answers.

For some reason, I feel there have been complaints about getting Journal
entries over.
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage

 

[BenR]

I am also trying to migrate from Windows Outlook 2003 to Entourage and have
also extensively used the Journal feature of the Outlook Contacts list. What
would be the corresponding Entourage feature for Journals?

The great feature of the Journals is that they are linked to the Contact--it
is a lot of information to lose if I can't import/link it in Entourage.

Thanks

Ben Romney