How to Move an Address Book From Microsoft Outlook to Mac Mail

Microsoft Outlook is a mail program that stores and organizes your address book, also known as contact information, and saves them as vCards. In order to move your Outlook address book to the Mail program on your Macintosh computer you must export them from Outlook. During the exporting process you must send them to your Macintosh computer via email, and download them to your computer. Once downloaded, your address book can be imported into the Address Book application on your Macintosh computer and is synced to the Mail application.

Things You'll Need

• Microsoft Outlook 2003 or later
• Mac OS X v. 10.5. or later

Instructions

1. Click the "Start" button on your PC's desktop, and select "All Programs" and "Microsoft Outlook."

2. Open the Contacts folder, and hold down the "Shift" key on your keyboard while clicking a contact to highlight it. Scroll down to the bottom of the Contacts folder, and click the last name to highlight all of the names.

3. Click "Action" at the top of the Outlook menu, and select "Forward as vCard" from the drop-down menu. Enter your Mac email address in the "To" field of the email message with the vCards as an attachment, and click the "Send" button to email the vCards to yourself.

4. Click the "Mail" icon on your Macintosh screen's dock, and double-click the email message that has the vCard attachments.

5. Download the vCards, and click the "Finder" icon on the Macintosh screen's dock. Click the "Applications" tab, and double-click the "Address Book" icon.

6. Click "File" at the top of the screen, and click "Import" from the drop-down menu.

7. Select the downloaded vCards in the Import window, and click the "Open" button.

References

• Macworld: Outlook Contacts to Address Book
• Apple Support: Mac OS X 10.1, 10.2 - How to Import Address into Address Book