How to Export Entourage Contacts to Gmail

Microsoft Entourage is an email application for Macintosh operating systems. In Entourage, you can store lists of email contacts and you can also export that list of contacts to add to another email account you have. The easiest way to export Entourage contacts is to export the contacts as tab-delimited text to a Microsoft Excel file. You can then save the contact list in Excel as a comma-separated values (CSV) file. The CSV file can be uploaded into your Gmail account.

Things You'll Need

• Microsoft Entourage
• Microsoft Excel
• Gmail account

Instructions

1. Open the Entourage application on your computer. Click on the “File” option from the top toolbar menu and then click on the “Export” option.

2. Click on the radio button next to the “Contacts to a list (tab-delimited text)” field so that it’s selected. The Microsoft Excel application will then open containing the exported contact list.

3. Click on the “File” option from the top toolbar menu in Excel and then click on the “Save as…” option. Click on the drop-down menu for the “Save as type” field and select the “CSV (Comma delimited)” option.

4. Enter a name for your CSV file containing your Entourage contact list and choose to save the file in a location where you can easily find it on your computer, such as the desktop. Click on the “Save” button.

5. Log into your Gmail account with your user name and password. Click on the “Contacts” option from the left navigation pane and then click on the “Import” option.

6. Click on the “Choose File” button and then locate the CSV file you created with Excel. Select the file and click on the “Open” button. Click on the “Import” button to add the information to your Gmail contact list.

References

• The Entourage Help Page: Importing/Exporting Contacts
• The Entourage Help Page: Import/Export CSV File