Outlook2003 to Entourage contacts frustration

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Bruce Coughlin - 17 Dec 2003 17:33 GMT

Can anyone explain how to get Outlook2003 (PC) contacts to Entourage without
them being completely garbled? The closest way to get it to work seems to be
with tab delimited text files. On Import I do the mapping of unmapped
fields. This works for everything EXCEPT contacts
which have street addresses with 2 lines of text where the first word is not
a number, for ex:

Suite 100
9801 Metric Blvd

On import to Entourage 10.1.4 the first line gets quotes wrapped around it
(?!). The first line then becomes Entourage's Street address:

"Suite 100 (no close quote!)

Then new contacts get created from the additional info, one new contact with
just the closed quote as the "name" (?!), one with the 2nd line of street
address as the name.

This is completely ridiculous. I can't believe it's so hard to get contacts
between 2 programs written by the same company.

TIA for any help.

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Bruce Coughlin - 18 Dec 2003 19:29 GMT

Since no one replied I assume no one was sure how to do it, so here's the
method:

* Select all Contacts in OUTLOOK 2003.
* Choose Forward as Vcard in the Actions menu. This creates an email with
Vcards as attachments. If you just drag the contacts to an email, it won't
work because they'll be sent as MSG format.
* Email to your Mac computer.
* I couldn't find an import item for Vcards, so drag the downloaded Vcard
attachments to the Address Book pane. Be careful: too many Vcards causes
Entourage to lock up. I had 684 and that didn't work, I broke them up into 3
smaller groups.

NOTE TO MICROSOFT: Doesn't this process belong in Import/Export? It's the
most intuitive place to put it. It took me 3 days (and someone pointing the
way) to get this to work, which is absurd since it's so simple. Also, having
tried other import/export methods (which weren't so wizardly) I can say that
Vcard seems to be the only reliable method.

On 12/17/03 12:33 PM, in article BC05FD89.395%brucecoughlin@nyc.rr.com,

> Can anyone explain how to get Outlook2003 (PC) contacts to Entourage without
> them being completely garbled?

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