Address book importing question

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Dustin Riley

Just moved from Apple Mail to Microsoft Entourage, and so far, so good! One
quick question, though. I was able to import my mail from Apple Mail just
fine, but I saw no way to import my Address Book into Entourage. Is there a
way of importing it? I've got well over 100 contacts, so I could type them
in one-by-one, it'd just be a huge time commitment.

Thanks in advance!
 
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Dustin Riley

A couple of quick questions from an Entourage newbie. Using 11.0.0.

Just moved from Apple Mail to Microsoft Entourage, and so far, so good! One
quick question, though. I was able to import my mail from Apple Mail just
fine, but I saw no way to import my Address Book into Entourage. Is there a
way of importing it? I've got well over 100 contacts, so I could type them
in one-by-one, it'd just be a huge time commitment.

Also, is there a way to edit preferences so that when replying to a message,
your reply goes underneath the quoted text?

Thanks in advance for your help.
 
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Rudy Kohut

There is a shareware applescript to keep Entourage and Mail address books in
sync. Go to http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/ and look for "Sync
Entourage-Address Book 2 [PANTHER] 2.5.5" (there is also a script if you are
still using Jaguar).

For your second question, go to Preferences, Reply & Forward, and untick the
"Place insertion point before quoted text" box.

Hope this helps.
 
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Mickey Stevens

You can drag contacts from Address Book to the Desktop, and then drag them
into Entourage's Address Book window. That should work for the most part,
but some fields might not convert properly. For a full conversion, try
using Paul Berkowitz's "Sync Entourage-Address Book" script. It isn't free,
but there is a free trial period.
<http://www.scriptbuilders.net/?search=Sync+Entourage-Address+Book>
 
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Phoebe

Dustin Riley said:
Just moved from Apple Mail to Microsoft Entourage, and so far, so good! One
quick question, though. I was able to import my mail from Apple Mail just
fine, but I saw no way to import my Address Book into Entourage. Is there a
way of importing it? I've got well over 100 contacts, so I could type them
in one-by-one, it'd just be a huge time commitment.
Click to expand...

If you plan to import one time only, you can drag your Address Book's
entries (or groups) and drop them into Entourage Address Book's window.
The backdraws, from my experience:
1. Not all of the email addresses (of some contacts who had many emails)
got imported.
2. Web pages were designated to home's web pages, but I had a simple
script to swap them:

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set all_p to selection
repeat with this_p in all_p
set home_url to home web page of this_p
set business web page of this_p to home_url
set home web page of this_p to ""
end repeat
end tell

You need to select the contacts whose web page you'd like to swap frm
home to work before running this script.

--pheebs
 
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