Mac Problem - Importing Address Book?

[Essential Buzz]

Having just graduated to the brave new world of MacBooks, I'm still gradually going through the setup and re-education process.

Amongst my early problems is an inability to import my address book from MS Outlook to Entourage.

Any advice gratefully accepted. :confused:

[AppleMacster]

This might help:

Outlook contacts to Address Book (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2913844�)

Applemacster

[Essential Buzz]

Thanks for the guidance, I'm sure I'll need a fair bit more in coming weeks!

I have successfully imported my contacts, but not exactly as described on the Apple link. The "vcf" files were combined into a "winmail.dat" file, which I didn't appear to be able to open on the Mac - with Stuffit or any other application.

In the end I just created an address book folder from the "vcf's" and transfered it via USB drive.

[Binoculars]

Buzz, you will find the help here valuable and cheerfully forthcoming as I have since I converted. I have been to the well repeatedly and rarely failed to get a satisfactory answer, so a lot of questions you may come up with have been dealt with before as you can well imagine.

I would recommend you have a read through the following two threads at your leisure and you will get an idea of the breadth of problems covered. They were a great help to me. Welcome to the world of Mac!

http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=200733
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=235799

[Essential Buzz]

Thanks Binos, I had already visited both links as part of my pre-purchase education.

It's gradually starting to make a bit more sense!