outlook 11 contacts to entourage 10.4.1

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Bruce Coughlin

How can I get this to work? It's so frustrating:

Trying to get Outlook 2004 (11) (PC) contacts into Entourage 10.1.4 is
an exercise in complete frustration... The only option available that
comes close to working is tab delimited format, but the translation is so
flakey: lots of addresses get translated to quoted phrases which then
get translated to first and last names in completely new contacts. For
instance, this Outlook contact gets completely messed up:

Company: Metrowerks Corp
Business Address:
Suite 100
9801 Metric Blvd
City: Austin
State: TX
Zip: 78758

gets translated to correct Company Name, then
Work Street Address: "Suite 100 (no close quote)

then a new contact gets created with

First Name: 9801 Metric Blvd" (with only close quote)
Last Name: Austin
Title: TX

There are scores of these messed up conversions.

The problem seems to mostly involve Street Addresses with 2 lines of
info.

Is there a more direct/easier way to get PC contacts into the Mac???? I
have both platforms. I just spent 2 hours trying to do this simple stupid
little task and it's still not correct. And why are certain fields converted
to quoted phrases? That really messes things up.
 
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Diane Ross

Trying to get Outlook 2004 (11) (PC) contacts into Entourage 10.1.4 is
an exercise in complete frustration... The only option available that
comes close to working is tab delimited format, but the translation is so
flakey: lots of addresses get translated to quoted phrases which then
get translated to first and last names in completely new contacts. For
instance, this Outlook contact gets completely messed up:
Click to expand...

Convert Mail from Windows to
Mac

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/help/convert.html>



Many have had excellent results with Paul Berkowitz's scripts Export-Import
Entourage.
 
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Paul Berkowitz

Convert Mail from Windows to
Click to expand...

He wants contacts, not mail.
Mac

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/help/convert.html>



Many have had excellent results with Paul Berkowitz's scripts Export-Import
Entourage.
Click to expand...

That will certainly do contacts (and calendar, tasks and notes).


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Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
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PLEASE always state which version of Entourage you are using - 2001 or X.
It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise.
 
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