How To Import Contacts From Outlook To Entourage On A Mac

Published by jacob355 on October 11, 2014

MS Entourage is a commonly used email application that suite for Mac users. With this application user can manage their emails, contacts, notes, calendars, appointments and many other things also. To store your important data it uses single database and make separate identify for each of its user. It stores the identity database in Microsoft Use folder data.

It may happen sometime that you are unable to access your important data from your entourage database. It may be due to that your entourage database gets corrupted. This is a common issue while handling your Entourage application. They face issue of application freezing and crashing.

Entourage gives you the facility to import contacts in the same way as Windows offers this in outlook. If you want to transfer your contacts from a Windows PC to a Mac, you can use do this using the Import and Export features which this mail clients offer. You can also export your contact from your current mail client to either a tab-delimited or comma-delimited text file.

According to Microsoft cautions “Importing contacts from Outlook 2000 or later versions can be difficult because of the way in which programs save exported files these exported files. Like , outlook contacts that contain paragraph returns in the Notes field can’t be correctly imported to entourage. So before you start exporting contacts from Outlook, be sure about the Notes fields in your contacts do not contain paragraph returns. And after imports delete blank lines that appear at the top of the Address Book.”

After exporting your contacts, transfer them to your Mac system so as to import it into Entourage. The Entourage Import Assistant provides you two ways to import to map fields:

1.         mapping fields manually

2.         using a mapping file you have saved previously

Steps to import contacts by manually mapping fields:

1. Open Entourage and go to File then select “Import” option.

2. From import Select ‘Import information from a text file’.

3. After selecting ‘Import contacts from a tab- or comma-delimited text file’, click the right arrow.

4. From Import Text File window, select the file that is to be imported, then click on Import.

5. Drag the field names in the Unmapped fields box to place them opposite their counterparts in the Mapped fields box.

6. When complete mapping of all the fields in the Unmapped fields box correctly, click on Import.

7.When prompted to save the current field mapping settings, do one of the following:

• To save the mapping settings, click on Save, and then type a name for the mapping settings file. The next time you import, you can use the saved mapping file.

•  To reject the mapping settings after you import, click on Don’t Save.

8. Select the Finish option.

Step to import contacts by using a saved mapping file:

1. Open Entourage and go to File > Import.

2. Select ‘Import information from a text file’.

3.  Make sure that ‘Import contacts from a tab- or comma-delimited text file’ is selected, then click on the right arrow.

4.  In the Import Text File window, select the file you want to import, then click on Import.

5. In the ‘Map fields using’ field, select the mapping file you want to use from the list.

Using these you can successfully import your contact from Outlook to Entourage on a Mac.

If any corruption issue arises during the import of contacts from Outlook to entourage On A Mac you can use third party repair tool that is Entourage Repair Tool. It is the best repair tool that can repair corrupt, damage, inaccessible database. With this use any solve any sort of corruption occurred in your entourage database. It very can recover your precious data such as email messages, attachments, calendar entries, notes, task, to do list, project files, events, etc. as it needs few simple steps to complete the repairing process you can easily get rid of corruption issue using this repair tool.

Steps for using Entourage repair tool are shown below:

Step 1: Start the Entourage repair Tool software. Then ‘Select Entourage Database File’ dialog box which gets displayed first by default. In the text box you will find a default location of database file, is by default selected. Press on ‘Browse’ option to select database file from any other location.

Step 2: After this the file will scan itself. After completion of scanning process, a summary message box will get displayed. Click on the ‘Close’ button to close this message box.

Step 3: After this have a preview of the repaired Entourage database file before saving, open it in Stellar Phoenix Entourage Repair. You will find the default repaired mail which is displayed on the preview window. To have a preview of any mail, click on ‘Mail’ button of the Tool bar or go to ‘View’ menu and click Mail option. You can even select your desired Entourage mailbox folder to see its contents.

database from RGE files.

Step 4: To save the repaired entourage file at your desired location, click on the File option on the application’s menu bar. Select the ‘Save Repaired File’ option. After this you will find the ‘Destination Folder’ dialog box. Select your desired destination for saving the repaired file.

Step 5: After this you will find a Saving process dialog box. You can even click on ‘Stop’ button to stop the file saving process.

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