Hey, all you Entourage Gurus out there.... I have a question.
I was helping a friend with his new 20" iMac yesterday. He's had it a little over a month. When he got it, he imported all of his email, addresses, and calendar info into the appropriate Apple apps (he imported from his PC files). He has since installed a full version of Office:2004. He has been wanted to try Entourage, but had been unsuccessful in being able to import the info from the Apple Apps to Entourage. I looked at it with him yesterday, and sure enough, realized it may not be possible.
Entourage has so many options of what kinds of programs/files to import from. It does not have any of the Apple Apps (Mail, iCal, Address Book). It does, of course import from a text file (tab or comma delimited, or from a MBOX-format text file) So I thought we could just go to the Apple Apps and have them Export as a text file. No can do. It exports, but you can not choose what type of file it exports as, and whatever that is isn't a text file that Entourage can read.
I assume this may be one of those things that is simply not possible, but I thought I'd check in with the pros first.
He doesn't want to re-import from his PC because he now has a month+ of information that is only in his Apple apps.
Any comments or suggestions?
Sorry, don't know about importing.
ReplyDelete-Mike
For mail, you can do File->Import and then select Import Information from a program. Apple Mail will be an option. This will get all of the accounts and mail data.
ReplyDeleteFor the address book, you launch Apple's Address Book and then drag contacts from Apple's address book window into Entourage's contact list.
Paul Berkowitz has a script to sync iCal and Entourage at http://files.macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/Entourage/syncentourageical_1013.sit. You could give that a try