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I am trying to import my Contacts from Entourage on my Mac desktop machine
to Outlook 2003 on my new laptop and cannot seem to figure out how to
accomplish the mapping when importing into Outlook. I have exported a
tab-delimited text file from Entourage on the Mac and imported the file into
Outlook. When I get to the step that allows me to map the fields, I only
seem to have one field per contact (in most of the contacts, not all?) with
all the Entourage fields on that one line. There are boxes between each
Entourage field on that one line. Can anyone help? Thank you...

Paul Le Veque

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Re: Entourage Contacts export to Outlook? by mmmmark

mmmmark
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exported a tab-delimited text file from Entourage on the Mac and =
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map the fields, I only seem to have one field per contact (in most of =
the contacts, not all?) with all the Entourage fields on that one line. =
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anyone help? Thank you...

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Re: Entourage Contacts export to Outlook? by Michel

Michel
Tue Jan 31 14:08:23 CST 2006

Mark, your answer is missing!

In the meantime, Paul, you might find it easier to use vCards instead of the
text file. You can create these by simply dragging your address book entries
to the desktop (or any other folder). I've never used Outlook 2003, but it
should be able to read the vCard file format. There is a limitation,
however: Entourage will only allow you to export 200 contacts at the same
time. In other words, if you have more than 200 contacts in your address
book, you'll have to export in several steps, by always selecting >200
contacts at a time.

Michel


On 31.01.06 19:06, in article #NauklpJGHA.3728@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl,
"mmmmark" <mdneely@_EXTRA_vcsd.com> wrote:

>
>>
>> "Paul Le Veque" <p.leveque@insightbb.com> wrote in message
>> news:C005072A.27F9A%p.leveque@insightbb.com...
>>
>> I am trying to import my Contacts from Entourage on my Mac desktop machine
>> to Outlook 2003 on my new laptop and cannot seem to figure out how to
>> accomplish the mapping when importing into Outlook. I have exported a
>> tab-delimited text file from Entourage on the Mac and imported the file into
>> Outlook. When I get to the step that allows me to map the fields, I only
>> seem to have one field per contact (in most of the contacts, not all?) with
>> all the Entourage fields on that one line. There are boxes between each
>> Entourage field on that one line. Can anyone help? Thank you...
>>
>> Paul Le Veque

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Re: Entourage Contacts export to Outlook? by mmmmark

mmmmark
Tue Jan 31 15:36:02 CST 2006

Yeah, looks like it got sent before I was done.

I didn't have a "good" answer or at least not a solution. I was only going
to suggest that the OP try to examine the tab delimited file in Word and see
if indeed there are tabs where he needs them. I've had to do this in some
engineering text that is dumped out of tech equipment. A search and replace
of some of those boxes _might_ yield some paydirt.

-Mark


"Michel Bintener" <m_bintener@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:C0057437.11A71%m_bintener@hotmail.com...
> Mark, your answer is missing!
>
> In the meantime, Paul, you might find it easier to use vCards instead of
> the
> text file. You can create these by simply dragging your address book
> entries
> to the desktop (or any other folder). I've never used Outlook 2003, but it
> should be able to read the vCard file format. There is a limitation,
> however: Entourage will only allow you to export 200 contacts at the same
> time. In other words, if you have more than 200 contacts in your address
> book, you'll have to export in several steps, by always selecting >200
> contacts at a time.
>
> Michel
>
>
> On 31.01.06 19:06, in article #NauklpJGHA.3728@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl,
> "mmmmark" <mdneely@_EXTRA_vcsd.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>>
>>> "Paul Le Veque" <p.leveque@insightbb.com> wrote in message
>>> news:C005072A.27F9A%p.leveque@insightbb.com...
>>>
>>> I am trying to import my Contacts from Entourage on my Mac desktop
>>> machine
>>> to Outlook 2003 on my new laptop and cannot seem to figure out how to
>>> accomplish the mapping when importing into Outlook. I have exported a
>>> tab-delimited text file from Entourage on the Mac and imported the file
>>> into
>>> Outlook. When I get to the step that allows me to map the fields, I
>>> only
>>> seem to have one field per contact (in most of the contacts, not all?)
>>> with
>>> all the Entourage fields on that one line. There are boxes between each
>>> Entourage field on that one line. Can anyone help? Thank you...
>>>
>>> Paul Le Veque
>


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Re: Entourage Contacts export to Outlook? by Paul

Paul
Wed Feb 01 06:55:28 CST 2006

Thanks for the suggestion, but when I attempt to do that Outlook or Windows
tells me that "vCards.vcf is not valid for this operation". I don't get it.
I have read the help files and both the tab-delimited and .vcf files are
supposed to work.

On 1/31/06 3:08 PM, in article C0057437.11A71%m_bintener@hotmail.com,
"Michel Bintener" <m_bintener@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Mark, your answer is missing!
>
> In the meantime, Paul, you might find it easier to use vCards instead of the
> text file. You can create these by simply dragging your address book entries
> to the desktop (or any other folder). I've never used Outlook 2003, but it
> should be able to read the vCard file format. There is a limitation,
> however: Entourage will only allow you to export 200 contacts at the same
> time. In other words, if you have more than 200 contacts in your address
> book, you'll have to export in several steps, by always selecting >200
> contacts at a time.
>
> Michel
>
>
> On 31.01.06 19:06, in article #NauklpJGHA.3728@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl,
> "mmmmark" <mdneely@_EXTRA_vcsd.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>>
>>> "Paul Le Veque" <p.leveque@insightbb.com> wrote in message
>>> news:C005072A.27F9A%p.leveque@insightbb.com...
>>>
>>> I am trying to import my Contacts from Entourage on my Mac desktop machine
>>> to Outlook 2003 on my new laptop and cannot seem to figure out how to
>>> accomplish the mapping when importing into Outlook. I have exported a
>>> tab-delimited text file from Entourage on the Mac and imported the file
>>> into
>>> Outlook. When I get to the step that allows me to map the fields, I only
>>> seem to have one field per contact (in most of the contacts, not all?) with
>>> all the Entourage fields on that one line. There are boxes between each
>>> Entourage field on that one line. Can anyone help? Thank you...
>>>
>>> Paul Le Veque
>


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Re: Entourage Contacts export to Outlook? by Paul

Paul
Wed Feb 01 07:00:30 CST 2006

Thanks. I checked as you suggested. The tabs are there. I just don't get it.
Entourage and Outlook help files suggest it should be rather
straightforward.

Paul


On 1/31/06 4:36 PM, in article #LeaY5qJGHA.3936@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl,
"mmmmark" <mdneely@_EXTRA_vcsd.com> wrote:

> Yeah, looks like it got sent before I was done.
>
> I didn't have a "good" answer or at least not a solution. I was only going
> to suggest that the OP try to examine the tab delimited file in Word and see
> if indeed there are tabs where he needs them. I've had to do this in some
> engineering text that is dumped out of tech equipment. A search and replace
> of some of those boxes _might_ yield some paydirt.
>
> -Mark
>
>
> "Michel Bintener" <m_bintener@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:C0057437.11A71%m_bintener@hotmail.com...
>> Mark, your answer is missing!
>>
>> In the meantime, Paul, you might find it easier to use vCards instead of
>> the
>> text file. You can create these by simply dragging your address book
>> entries
>> to the desktop (or any other folder). I've never used Outlook 2003, but it
>> should be able to read the vCard file format. There is a limitation,
>> however: Entourage will only allow you to export 200 contacts at the same
>> time. In other words, if you have more than 200 contacts in your address
>> book, you'll have to export in several steps, by always selecting >200
>> contacts at a time.
>>
>> Michel
>>
>>
>> On 31.01.06 19:06, in article #NauklpJGHA.3728@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl,
>> "mmmmark" <mdneely@_EXTRA_vcsd.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Paul Le Veque" <p.leveque@insightbb.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:C005072A.27F9A%p.leveque@insightbb.com...
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to import my Contacts from Entourage on my Mac desktop
>>>> machine
>>>> to Outlook 2003 on my new laptop and cannot seem to figure out how to
>>>> accomplish the mapping when importing into Outlook. I have exported a
>>>> tab-delimited text file from Entourage on the Mac and imported the file
>>>> into
>>>> Outlook. When I get to the step that allows me to map the fields, I
>>>> only
>>>> seem to have one field per contact (in most of the contacts, not all?)
>>>> with
>>>> all the Entourage fields on that one line. There are boxes between each
>>>> Entourage field on that one line. Can anyone help? Thank you...
>>>>
>>>> Paul Le Veque
>>
>
>


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Re: Entourage Contacts export to Outlook? by Michel

Michel
Wed Feb 01 10:21:39 CST 2006

When you export your contacts by dragging them to the desktop, you should
get individual vCards for each contact. Can you not import these into
Outlook? Could you please describe what exactly you are doing to get the
vCards, and what exactly you are doing on the Windows side to import them
into Outlook? Mind you, I've never used Outlook, so I doubt that I'll be of
any help, but still, others might know more about Outlook and vCards. Does
the Import function not work? And how about simply dragging and dropping the
vCard files into Outlook's address book? An online search tells me that
Outlook should handle vCards just fine, and that there are only problems
with the single vCards produced by Apple's Address Book (which shouldn't be
a problem in this case, since we're talking about Entourage).

On 01.02.06 12:55, in article C00619F0.28006%p.leveque@insightbb.com, "Paul
Le Veque" <p.leveque@insightbb.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestion, but when I attempt to do that Outlook or Windows
> tells me that "vCards.vcf is not valid for this operation". I don't get it.
> I have read the help files and both the tab-delimited and .vcf files are
> supposed to work.
>
> On 1/31/06 3:08 PM, in article C0057437.11A71%m_bintener@hotmail.com,
> "Michel Bintener" <m_bintener@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Mark, your answer is missing!
>>
>> In the meantime, Paul, you might find it easier to use vCards instead of the
>> text file. You can create these by simply dragging your address book entries
>> to the desktop (or any other folder). I've never used Outlook 2003, but it
>> should be able to read the vCard file format. There is a limitation,
>> however: Entourage will only allow you to export 200 contacts at the same
>> time. In other words, if you have more than 200 contacts in your address
>> book, you'll have to export in several steps, by always selecting >200
>> contacts at a time.
>>
>> Michel

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Re: Entourage Contacts export to Outlook? by mmmmark

mmmmark
Wed Feb 01 10:36:01 CST 2006

The other thing to consider is whether it is in a format that Windows likes.
It seems that text files are different based on what OS they are intended
for. I don't have the information in front of me, but it seems like some
like carriage returns and line feeds after each line and some don't.

The wrong format will confuse Outlook. Upon import, Outlook even makes a
difference between "Tab Separated DOS" and "Tab Separated Windows". Notice
they do not mention Mac or Unix, which are different animals. Might be
worth checking into.

-Mark

"Paul Le Veque" <p.leveque@insightbb.com> wrote in message
news:C0061B1D.28009%p.leveque@insightbb.com...
> Thanks. I checked as you suggested. The tabs are there. I just don't get
> it.
> Entourage and Outlook help files suggest it should be rather
> straightforward.
>
> Paul
>
>
> On 1/31/06 4:36 PM, in article #LeaY5qJGHA.3936@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl,
> "mmmmark" <mdneely@_EXTRA_vcsd.com> wrote:
>
>> Yeah, looks like it got sent before I was done.
>>
>> I didn't have a "good" answer or at least not a solution. I was only
>> going
>> to suggest that the OP try to examine the tab delimited file in Word and
>> see
>> if indeed there are tabs where he needs them. I've had to do this in
>> some
>> engineering text that is dumped out of tech equipment. A search and
>> replace
>> of some of those boxes _might_ yield some paydirt.
>>
>> -Mark
>>
>>
>> "Michel Bintener" <m_bintener@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:C0057437.11A71%m_bintener@hotmail.com...
>>> Mark, your answer is missing!
>>>
>>> In the meantime, Paul, you might find it easier to use vCards instead of
>>> the
>>> text file. You can create these by simply dragging your address book
>>> entries
>>> to the desktop (or any other folder). I've never used Outlook 2003, but
>>> it
>>> should be able to read the vCard file format. There is a limitation,
>>> however: Entourage will only allow you to export 200 contacts at the
>>> same
>>> time. In other words, if you have more than 200 contacts in your address
>>> book, you'll have to export in several steps, by always selecting >200
>>> contacts at a time.
>>>
>>> Michel
>>>
>>>
>>> On 31.01.06 19:06, in article #NauklpJGHA.3728@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl,
>>> "mmmmark" <mdneely@_EXTRA_vcsd.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> "Paul Le Veque" <p.leveque@insightbb.com> wrote in message
>>>>> news:C005072A.27F9A%p.leveque@insightbb.com...
>>>>>
>>>>> I am trying to import my Contacts from Entourage on my Mac desktop
>>>>> machine
>>>>> to Outlook 2003 on my new laptop and cannot seem to figure out how to
>>>>> accomplish the mapping when importing into Outlook. I have exported a
>>>>> tab-delimited text file from Entourage on the Mac and imported the
>>>>> file
>>>>> into
>>>>> Outlook. When I get to the step that allows me to map the fields, I
>>>>> only
>>>>> seem to have one field per contact (in most of the contacts, not
>>>>> all?)
>>>>> with
>>>>> all the Entourage fields on that one line. There are boxes between
>>>>> each
>>>>> Entourage field on that one line. Can anyone help? Thank you...
>>>>>
>>>>> Paul Le Veque
>>>
>>
>>
>
>


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Re: Entourage Contacts export to Outlook? by Paul

Paul
Wed Feb 01 14:03:57 CST 2006

Thanks for the suggestions. Still no luck...

I've tried the tab-delimited files and also vCard files. I am moving the
files from one computer to the other using a jump stick. The laptop appears
to recognize the vCard files; at least the file icons are correct and they
open. Dropping the vCard files on the address book on Outlook I get just
what PanJack did...blank entry windows.

Here's the sum total of what the Entourage help file says...
Copy messages or contacts from Entourage to a Windows-based computer
1. In Entourage, do one of the following:
? To copy messages, drag the folder that contains the messages from the
Folders list to your desktop. Entourage saves the contents of the folder as
an MBOX-format text file.
? To copy contacts, click Export on the File menu and follow the steps in
the Export Assistant. Copy the file to a PC-format disk. If you have access
to a network share that is connected to both Windows-based and Macintosh
computers, you can place the files on the network and then copy them from
either type of computer.
3. Copy the file from the disk to the computer's hard disk.
Followed by a primer on file extensions.

On 2/1/06 11:21 AM, in article C0069093.11ACB%m_bintener@hotmail.com,
"Michel Bintener" <m_bintener@hotmail.com> wrote:

> When you export your contacts by dragging them to the desktop, you should
> get individual vCards for each contact. Can you not import these into
> Outlook? Could you please describe what exactly you are doing to get the
> vCards, and what exactly you are doing on the Windows side to import them
> into Outlook? Mind you, I've never used Outlook, so I doubt that I'll be of
> any help, but still, others might know more about Outlook and vCards. Does
> the Import function not work? And how about simply dragging and dropping the
> vCard files into Outlook's address book? An online search tells me that
> Outlook should handle vCards just fine, and that there are only problems
> with the single vCards produced by Apple's Address Book (which shouldn't be
> a problem in this case, since we're talking about Entourage).
>
> On 01.02.06 12:55, in article C00619F0.28006%p.leveque@insightbb.com, "Paul
> Le Veque" <p.leveque@insightbb.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the suggestion, but when I attempt to do that Outlook or Windows
>> tells me that "vCards.vcf is not valid for this operation". I don't get it.
>> I have read the help files and both the tab-delimited and .vcf files are
>> supposed to work.
>>
>> On 1/31/06 3:08 PM, in article C0057437.11A71%m_bintener@hotmail.com,
>> "Michel Bintener" <m_bintener@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Mark, your answer is missing!
>>>
>>> In the meantime, Paul, you might find it easier to use vCards instead of the
>>> text file. You can create these by simply dragging your address book entries
>>> to the desktop (or any other folder). I've never used Outlook 2003, but it
>>> should be able to read the vCard file format. There is a limitation,
>>> however: Entourage will only allow you to export 200 contacts at the same
>>> time. In other words, if you have more than 200 contacts in your address
>>> book, you'll have to export in several steps, by always selecting >200
>>> contacts at a time.
>>>
>>> Michel
>


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Re: Entourage Contacts export to Outlook? by Paul

Paul
Wed Feb 01 14:11:18 CST 2006

I have used the Export function for vCards, which seems to create one file
and also the the drag and drop method you describe which produces individual
vCard files. Importing or dragging them into Outlook produces blank entries.

The tab-delimited import takes me back to my original question.

On 2/1/06 11:21 AM, in article C0069093.11ACB%m_bintener@hotmail.com,
"Michel Bintener" <m_bintener@hotmail.com> wrote:

> When you export your contacts by dragging them to the desktop, you should
> get individual vCards for each contact. Can you not import these into
> Outlook? Could you please describe what exactly you are doing to get the
> vCards, and what exactly you are doing on the Windows side to import them
> into Outlook? Mind you, I've never used Outlook, so I doubt that I'll be of
> any help, but still, others might know more about Outlook and vCards. Does
> the Import function not work? And how about simply dragging and dropping the
> vCard files into Outlook's address book? An online search tells me that
> Outlook should handle vCards just fine, and that there are only problems
> with the single vCards produced by Apple's Address Book (which shouldn't be
> a problem in this case, since we're talking about Entourage).
>
> On 01.02.06 12:55, in article C00619F0.28006%p.leveque@insightbb.com, "Paul
> Le Veque" <p.leveque@insightbb.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the suggestion, but when I attempt to do that Outlook or Windows
>> tells me that "vCards.vcf is not valid for this operation". I don't get it.
>> I have read the help files and both the tab-delimited and .vcf files are
>> supposed to work.
>>
>> On 1/31/06 3:08 PM, in article C0057437.11A71%m_bintener@hotmail.com,
>> "Michel Bintener" <m_bintener@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Mark, your answer is missing!
>>>
>>> In the meantime, Paul, you might find it easier to use vCards instead of the
>>> text file. You can create these by simply dragging your address book entries
>>> to the desktop (or any other folder). I've never used Outlook 2003, but it
>>> should be able to read the vCard file format. There is a limitation,
>>> however: Entourage will only allow you to export 200 contacts at the same
>>> time. In other words, if you have more than 200 contacts in your address
>>> book, you'll have to export in several steps, by always selecting >200
>>> contacts at a time.
>>>
>>> Michel
>


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Re: Entourage Contacts export to Outlook? by Paul

Paul
Thu Feb 02 08:39:45 CST 2006

Well, I figured out how to do it! On my Windoze laptop I imported the data
from the tab-delimited file into Excel as a tab-delimited Macintosh file.
Then, I saved the spreadsheet as a comma-delimited file. Next, I imported
that CSV file into Outlook and was able then to map each field. Sheesh!
Sorta' like going over your shoulder to ........

Thanks for all the suggestions.

Paul


On 2/1/06 3:11 PM, in article C0068015.28046%p.leveque@insightbb.com, "Paul
Le Veque" <p.leveque@insightbb.com> wrote:

> I have used the Export function for vCards, which seems to create one file
> and also the the drag and drop method you describe which produces individual
> vCard files. Importing or dragging them into Outlook produces blank entries.
>
> The tab-delimited import takes me back to my original question.
>
> On 2/1/06 11:21 AM, in article C0069093.11ACB%m_bintener@hotmail.com,
> "Michel Bintener" <m_bintener@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> When you export your contacts by dragging them to the desktop, you should
>> get individual vCards for each contact. Can you not import these into
>> Outlook? Could you please describe what exactly you are doing to get the
>> vCards, and what exactly you are doing on the Windows side to import them
>> into Outlook? Mind you, I've never used Outlook, so I doubt that I'll be of
>> any help, but still, others might know more about Outlook and vCards. Does
>> the Import function not work? And how about simply dragging and dropping the
>> vCard files into Outlook's address book? An online search tells me that
>> Outlook should handle vCards just fine, and that there are only problems
>> with the single vCards produced by Apple's Address Book (which shouldn't be
>> a problem in this case, since we're talking about Entourage).
>>
>> On 01.02.06 12:55, in article C00619F0.28006%p.leveque@insightbb.com, "Paul
>> Le Veque" <p.leveque@insightbb.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the suggestion, but when I attempt to do that Outlook or Windows
>>> tells me that "vCards.vcf is not valid for this operation". I don't get it.
>>> I have read the help files and both the tab-delimited and .vcf files are
>>> supposed to work.
>>>
>>> On 1/31/06 3:08 PM, in article C0057437.11A71%m_bintener@hotmail.com,
>>> "Michel Bintener" <m_bintener@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Mark, your answer is missing!
>>>>
>>>> In the meantime, Paul, you might find it easier to use vCards instead of
>>>> the
>>>> text file. You can create these by simply dragging your address book
>>>> entries
>>>> to the desktop (or any other folder). I've never used Outlook 2003, but it
>>>> should be able to read the vCard file format. There is a limitation,
>>>> however: Entourage will only allow you to export 200 contacts at the same
>>>> time. In other words, if you have more than 200 contacts in your address
>>>> book, you'll have to export in several steps, by always selecting >200
>>>> contacts at a time.
>>>>
>>>> Michel
>>
>
>


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Re: Entourage Contacts export to Outlook? by mmmmark

mmmmark
Thu Feb 02 08:48:42 CST 2006

Glad to hear it!


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Re: Entourage Contacts export to Outlook? by DrDude

DrDude
Wed Feb 22 19:40:13 CST 2006


mmmmark wrote:
> Glad to hear it!

I just went through this horror. I thought that MS would adhere to
"standards" such as vcard, silly me. Further, I was stunned that 1 MS
product could not talk to another despite being on different platforms.

Anyway, what I did that ultimately worked was to drag the contacts from
Entourage into a folder on the desktop to create the 200+ vcards. Now
these Entourage vcards won't be recognized by Outlook (content is
blank). So I imported the vcards into the Palm Desktop for Mac (free
at Palm). From there, I exported the contacts as vcards. Moved to the
Windoze machine and into Outlook with no problems. Unbelievable that
MS makes one go through this.

Also, I may not be an ace at Outlook (it was for a coworker's machine),
but I could only import 1 at a time through the file menu. What I did
then was drag them into Outlook from the Finder (er, Explorer), but I
still got 200 windows of the individual contacts and had to save each
one. Whoever said that the you have to learn Windoze but the Mac was
made for the way YOU work was right on the money.

Hope this helps.

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Re: Entourage Contacts export to Outlook? by Barry

Barry
Thu Feb 23 03:30:50 CST 2006

On 23/2/06 01:40, in article
1140658813.794385.321680@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com, "DrDude"
<slyttleton@mac.com> wrote:

>
> mmmmark wrote:
>> Glad to hear it!
>
> I just went through this horror. I thought that MS would adhere to
> "standards" such as vcard, silly me. Further, I was stunned that 1 MS
> product could not talk to another despite being on different platforms.

Well, you an either have standards or you can have them talking to each
other! <g>

Entourage is built from the ground up to support web standards. Outlook
supports it's own standards. So, they don't always play nicely together,
unfortunately.

>
> Anyway, what I did that ultimately worked was to drag the contacts from
> Entourage into a folder on the desktop to create the 200+ vcards. Now
> these Entourage vcards won't be recognized by Outlook (content is
> blank). So I imported the vcards into the Palm Desktop for Mac (free
> at Palm). From there, I exported the contacts as vcards. Moved to the
> Windoze machine and into Outlook with no problems. Unbelievable that
> MS makes one go through this.

Did you try Paul B's Import/Export scripts?

>
> Also, I may not be an ace at Outlook (it was for a coworker's machine),
> but I could only import 1 at a time through the file menu. What I did
> then was drag them into Outlook from the Finder (er, Explorer), but I
> still got 200 windows of the individual contacts and had to save each
> one. Whoever said that the you have to learn Windoze but the Mac was
> made for the way YOU work was right on the money.

There must be a moral in there somewhere :)

--
Barry Wainwright
Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details)
Check out the Entourage User's WebLog for hints, tips and troubleshooting
<http://homepage.mac.com/barryw/weblog/weblog.html>

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