Best Way to Move 2k+ Contacts from Outlook (PC) to Mac?

[jsciullo]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I have Outlook Office Enterprise for my PC and want to move my 2000+ contacts over to Entourage or the Mac Address book. Since neither of these Mac versions support the .pst file formats (bummer) and the comma or tab seperated files do not work well I am forced to use vCard. A seperate vCard for each user is going to be a time consuming hog. Anyone have success with program that creates batch v Cards that I can move over to my Mac?
Thanks,
Jim

 

[William Smith [MVP]]

I have Outlook Office Enterprise for my PC and want to move my 2000+
contacts over to Entourage or the Mac Address book. Since neither of
these Mac versions support the .pst file formats (bummer) and the
comma or tab seperated files do not work well I am forced to use
vCard. A seperate vCard for each user is going to be a time consuming
hog. Anyone have success with program that creates batch v Cards that
I can move over to my Mac?

Hi Jim!

What problems have you had with tab-separated files? Entourage can
import these with no problems provided they are formatted correctly.

Yes, you can move the contact records as vCards but if you're only doing
it once then the time would probably be well spent.

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[jsciullo]

Hi Bill-
I bit the bullet and created vCards for each of my contacts from Office Professional (PC based) and then imported them into Entourage. I was then able to sync "E" with my Address Book and then sync to my iTouch. THere is a lot of redundancy but it works well.

I think the problem with tab seperated files was that my Office Professional has the "contact" option and I could never get the fields to import correctly no matter how much I tried to match the fields. Someday maybe Microsoft will include the pst file option that works so well across PC platforms.

Jim