How Do I Import Contacts from Outlook into Entourage?

I used to work in a PC office environment and now I am in a Mac office environment. I have almost 600 business contacts that I would like to import into Entourage. 
 
I exported the contacts from Outlook into a CSV file, but the only things that got imported into Entourage were the name, cell phone and e-mail. 
 
I don't want to have to retype almost 600 contacts. How do I get the fields to match up?

Joel
Sat Feb 09 14:10:41 CST 2008

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Simplest way I found:

Create an empty folder on your desktop.
Open Outlook Contacts. From the Edit menu, Select All.
Drag all your contacts to the empty folder. This will create vCards in the
empty folder for each contact and may take a few minutes.
Move the vCards to your Mac thumb drive or whatever
Open the Entourage Contacts screen. Select all the vCards and drag them into
the contacts window.

Good luck, Joel

On 2/9/08 1:29 PM, in article ee8cd1e.-1@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,
"mrushing@officeformac.com" <mrushing@officeformac.com> wrote:

> I used to work in a PC office environment and now I am in a Mac office
> environment. I have almost 600 business contacts that I would like to import
> into Entourage.
>
> I exported the contacts from Outlook into a CSV file, but the only things that
> got imported into Entourage were the name, cell phone and e-mail.
>
> I don't want to have to retype almost 600 contacts. How do I get the fields to
> match up?

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Simplest way I found: 
 
Create an empty folder on your desktop. 
Open Outlook Contacts. From the Edit menu, Select All. 
Drag all your contacts to the empty folder. This will create vCards in the =
empty folder for each contact and may take a few minutes. 
Move the vCards to your Mac – thumb drive or whatever 
Open the Entourage Contacts screen. Select all the vCards and drag them int=
o the contacts window. 
 
Good luck, Joel 
 
 
 
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business contacts that I would like to import into Entourage. 
 
I exported the contacts from Outlook into a CSV file, but the only things t=
hat got imported into Entourage were the name, cell phone and e-mail. 
 
I don't want to have to retype almost 600 contacts. How do I get the fields=
to match up? 
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Diane
Sat Feb 09 19:10:59 CST 2008

On 2/9/08 10:29 AM, in article ee8cd1e.-1@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,
"mrushing@officeformac.com" <mrushing@officeformac.com> wrote:

> I used to work in a PC office environment and now I am in a Mac office
> environment. I have almost 600 business contacts that I would like to import
> into Entourage.

Check out these suggestions:

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

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Diane, Microsoft Mac MVP (MVPs are not Microsoft Employees)
Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>

Gene
Sat Feb 09 23:01:56 CST 2008

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Do you have the iMac Address Book. First I opened the csv file in Excel and
the imported that into the Address Book which is synched or linked, or
whatever with the Entourage address book. What I dislike about the Entourage
address book is that I can¹t seem to set up folders to segregate the ?cards¹
into separate topics such as friends, family, business etc.
Also when it comes to combining multipart usenet image files, there is no
way to do that as was done in Outlook Express.
Also Entourage has a Microsoft bad habit of crashing suddenly. Fortunately,
the iMac is capable of gathering the error information and forwarding to
whomever may be actually interested in that sort of of stuff, and then
immediately reload Entourage.
I only bought the student/home version of Office 2008 for iMac because I
wanted a word processor that I was used to. I should have saved my money.
The lack of any real customer support by MS is BS, just another example of
big business blowing off customers who provide them with their income.

Gene
Lake Oswego, OR

On 2/9/08 10:29 AM, in article ee8cd1e.-1@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,
"mrushing@officeformac.com" <mrushing@officeformac.com> wrote:

> I used to work in a PC office environment and now I am in a Mac office
> environment. I have almost 600 business contacts that I would like to import
> into Entourage.
>
> I exported the contacts from Outlook into a CSV file, but the only things that
> got imported into Entourage were the name, cell phone and e-mail.
>
> I don't want to have to retype almost 600 contacts. How do I get the fields to
> match up?

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you have the iMac Address Book. First I opened the csv file in Excel and th=
e imported that into the Address Book which is synched or linked, or whateve=
r with the Entourage address book. What I dislike about the Entourage addres=
s book is that I can’t seem to set up folders to segregate the ‘=
cards’ into separate topics such as friends, family, business etc. 
Also when it comes to combining multipart usenet image files, there is no w=
ay to do that as was done in Outlook Express. 
Also Entourage has a Microsoft bad habit of crashing suddenly. Fortunately,=
the iMac is capable of gathering the error information and forwarding to wh=
omever may be actually interested in that sort of of stuff, and then immedia=
tely reload Entourage. 
I only bought the student/home version of Office 2008 for iMac because I wa=
nted a word processor that I was used to. I should have saved my money. The =
lack of any real customer support by MS is BS, just another example of big b=
usiness blowing off customers who provide them with their income. 
 
Gene 
Lake Oswego, OR 
 
 
 
On 2/9/08 10:29 AM, in article ee8cd1e.-1@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "mr=
ushing@officeformac.com" <mrushing@officeformac.com> wrote: 
 
<BLOCKQUOTE>I used to work in a PC office environment and=
now I am in a Mac office environment. I have almost 600 business contacts t=
hat I would like to import into Entourage. 
 
I exported the contacts from Outlook into a CSV file, but the only things t=
hat got imported into Entourage were the name, cell phone and e-mail. 
 
I don't want to have to retype almost 600 contacts. How do I get the fields=
to match up? 
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Diane
Sat Feb 09 23:11:23 CST 2008

On 2/9/08 9:01 PM, in article C3D3C542.2DDC%gene.park@comcast.net, "Gene
Park" <gene.park@comcast.net> wrote:

> Do you have the iMac Address Book. First I opened the csv file in Excel and
> the imported that into the Address Book which is synched or linked, or
> whatever with the Entourage address book.

Entourage can import a .csv file. Import text file.

>What I dislike about the Entourage
> address book is that I can¹t seem to set up folders to segregate the ?cards¹
> into separate topics such as friends, family, business etc.

Assign categories to each contact. Then sort by category.

> Also when it comes to combining multipart usenet image files, there is no way
> to do that as was done in Outlook Express.

That's true. Entourage newsreader is very basic.

> Also Entourage has a Microsoft bad habit of crashing suddenly. Fortunately,
> the iMac is capable of gathering the error information and forwarding to
> whomever may be actually interested in that sort of of stuff, and then
> immediately reload Entourage.

I rarely crash. You need to give details on your problems. It's not always
Entourage's fault.

> I only bought the student/home version of Office 2008 for iMac because I
> wanted a word processor that I was used to. I should have saved my money. The
> lack of any real customer support by MS is BS, just another example of big
> business blowing off customers who provide them with their income.

As on the Word newsgroup for help.

microsoft.public.mac.office.word
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Diane, Microsoft Mac MVP (MVPs are not Microsoft Employees)
Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>

How Do I Import Contacts from Outlook into Entourage?

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