Moving contacts from Oulook under Windows to Address Book under OS X can be a pain until you figure out the easy way to do it.
I tried exporting to a .pst and importing that in Address Book. It didn't like that. I tried exporting to tab delimited and comma seperated. Outlook complained it needed to install a translator and then wanted the CDs. Forget that. I'm not digging those out. Finally, I found the way. Forward as vCard. Why Outlook doesn't offer vCard as an export type, I have no idea.
Anyway, just open your contacts in Outlook. Select all and then click Actions->Forward as vCard. Send that email to something you can retrieve on your Mac. Get the email on the Mac. Save the attachments out and then drag them from the Finder in to the Address Book. Bang, done, and you even have your contacts as vCards that can be easily backed up.
2005-07-05
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Posted by ---ryan at 11:31 PM
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Welcome to 1997...
I remember when vcards were introduced into Outlook, and it rocked because I could move all the lusers at the University that I worked from Internet Mail and News (everyone remember that?) personal address book over to Outlook.
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