Importing Hotmail contacts

  • Thread starter Fabiana N. Bacalhau
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Fabiana N. Bacalhau

I just got Entourage and I'm looking for a way to importing my Hotmail
contacts list into entourage.

I've tried to copy and paste the list of contacts into a Word document,
but doesn't seem to be working.

Please, could somebody help me.

Thank you,

Fabiana
 
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Dave Cortright

I just got Entourage and I'm looking for a way to importing my Hotmail
contacts list into entourage.

I've tried to copy and paste the list of contacts into a Word document,
but doesn't seem to be working.

Please, could somebody help me.

Thank you,

Fabiana
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If you have an MSN account, you can use the MSN for Mac OS X client to
download your contacts, then drag them to a folder on your desktop to export
them, and finally drag the export files into Entourage to import them. You
can sign up for a free account, and then immediately cancel after you've
done this.

If there's any way to send or save contacts from the Hotmail site as vCards
or even a tab/comma delimited text file, that will work too.
 
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Paul Berkowitz

If you have an MSN account, you can use the MSN for Mac OS X client to
download your contacts, then drag them to a folder on your desktop to export
them, and finally drag the export files into Entourage to import them. You
can sign up for a free account, and then immediately cancel after you've
done this.

If there's any way to send or save contacts from the Hotmail site as vCards
or even a tab/comma delimited text file, that will work too.
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But unfortunately the comma delimited text files not only use Outlook
Windows fields - which you can match up pretty closely in Entourage's
File/Import/Contacts - they also surround all the fields in quotation marks.
That means first name, last name, every element of a postal address, etc.
And Entourage won't import categories. And "special" characters get changed.

You might want to get my "Export-Import Entourage X" scripts from

MacScripter.net <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

The Outlook Contacts to EvX and Contacts Import into X scripts will import
those comma-delimited files cleanly, no quotation marks, special characters
and categories intact.

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Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

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