Re: Switching from MS Outlook to Entourage w/a Mac

I had a similar situation recently, when I left my job (where I used
Outlook) and wanted to transfer my contacts to Entourage, which I use on
my iBook G4 at home. I opened each contact I wanted to save and selected
"Forward as vCard" in the (is it Actions?) menu in Outlook, then
addressed the resulting e-mail to my own gMail account. About half of
the messages came through just fine with vCard attachments, which I was
able to import into Entourage with no trouble. The rest, though, had a
winmail.dat attachment instead of the vCard. There was no alternating
back and forth with the 2 types; the first 20 or so I sent came through
as vCards, and the rest as winmail.dat attachments.

Any chance of recovering these, or any suggestions about what I might
have done wrong?

Julia




In article <BFF3A322.41AF%joe.havrilla@xxxxxxx>,
Joe Havrilla <joe.havrilla@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Alan,
>
> Sorry for taking so long to respond ... was on the road. I was referring to
> the ability to select contacts in Outlook, then (either tools or actions
> menu?) "Send as vCard."
>
> One thing I found that I couldn't find documented anywhere. If you have any
> groups defined and you select them along with basic contacts, you won't see
> an option to send vCards. Just deselect the groups and it'll work fine.
>
> Then just send them to yourself and open the e-mail in Entourage, save as
> attachments, then drag the attachments from the Finder window into the
> Entourage contacts folder.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
>
> Joe
>
>
>
> On 1/15/06 12:34 PM, in article
> olyyf.9593$or4.246@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Hans Castorp"
> <alanfreemond@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Joe,
> >
> > Thank you for taking the time to reply. What do you mean send the v-card
> > thing for contacts?
> > Alan
> >
> >
> >
> > "Joseph Havrilla" <joseph.havrilla@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:BFEEE738.3DF6%joseph.havrilla@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Alan,
> >>
> >> I just made the same switch. Clearly MS could make it easier and is
> >> choosing not to. Fair? Don't know, don't care really, as all it served
> > to
> >> do was to make me learn more about my Mac even faster.
> >>
> >> My biggest gripe is the lack of a tool to ease the conversion from
> > Outlook.
> >> It has been a real pain and I still do not have my Contacts moved yet. It
> >> has been particularly difficult for me for a few reasons: like the fact
> > that
> >> I have pst archive files that go back many years which have several layers
> >> of foldering within them, and that I had about a dozen different contact
> >> folders. If you are an organized packrat you will pay the price :-). If
> >> you keep all of your stuff in one flat mail file and one contacts list,
> > the
> >> conversion won't be too bad.
> >>
> >> Best answers that I've found so far:
> >>
> >> - Install Mozilla on XP and import Outlook mail, then convert to Entourage
> >>
> >> - Use the send vCard thing for contacts
> >>
> >> Any Google search will give you the details ...
> >>
> >> Other than conversion to Entourage, it has gone pretty well. I have a few
> >> Excel spreadsheets with VBA macros that I wrote that no longer work. To
> > be
> >> honest though, I haven't dug into it to figure out what the problem is.
> >>
> >> All that said, I really needed a change/challenge and was so impressed
> > with
> >> the nano that I decided to give Apple a shot. Having had considerable
> > Unix
> >> experience from the past, my angst about "making it do what I want" was
> >> lessened. When I think of all the "tweaking" that I've had to do over the
> >> years to get MS to work properly, this switch seems miniscule (in terms of
> >> pain) so far. I heartily recommend that you proceed, albeit with your
> > eyes
> >> open.
> >>
> >> Good luck!
> >>
> >>
> >> Joe
> >>
> >>
> >> On 1/14/06 3:15 PM, in article
> >> kCfyf.5317$or4.2883@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Hans Castorp"
> >> <alanfreemond@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I am a Win XP user and have been for eons. I am thinking about
> > migrating my
> >>> computers to Apple products. However, I would use MS software for Macs.
> >>> Additionally I use Outlook 2002. I gave Entourage a brief test drive,
> > but
> >>> it was hardly rigorous and would appreciate any thoughts or help from
> > those
> >>> who have made the swith and are happy as well as those who are not happy
> >>> using Entourage.
> >>>
> >>> Many thanks in advance.
> >>>
> >>> Alan
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
.