Import Outlook Contacts Into the Mac Mail Application
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Exporting and importing your Microsoft Outlook contacts into the Mac mail application is as simple as a, b, c, and it hardly takes more than a couple of minutes. And in fact, this feature comes as a boon for those who have purchased MacBook or moving their work from one workstation to the other by just following short and easy steps as mentioned below:
Steps
Export Process
- Highlight “Export to a file”.
- Press Next >
- After that, select Comma Separated Values (Windows) from the list.
- Press Next > again
- Then, highlight the Contacts folder.
- Press Next >
- Now, with the help of Browse button to select a location and file name for the contacts that are exported. (For instance, "Outlook.csv" or "ol-contacts.csv")
- Press Next > again.
- At last, press “Finish”.
- This is the end of the Export process, and once you are done with it, copy that file in a CD or any external drive. Eject or remove the medium where the contacts are copied and insert the same in your MacBook. And now, start the Import process.
Import Process
- Copy the "ol-contacts.csv" file from the source to the MacBook.
- Then, Launch Address Book on the MacBook.
- Go to the File -> Import -> Text file... from the menu.
- Look for "ol-contacts.csv" file, and double-click it.
- Keep in mind that ‘Ignore first card’ has to be checked.
- Search for E-Mail Addresses in the ol-contacts.csv column.
- Press ‘Do not import’ in the Address Book column's parallel field.
- Choose Email (work), Email (home) or Email (other).
- Click OK to complete the process.
Video
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