Just Switched: Transfer addressbook?

[Phatpat]

I just got a friend to switch to mac. She had quite an extensive addressbook in Outlook Express. I don't have access to a pc at the moment, so I can't really explore. Is there an easy way to transfer all her contacts from the outlook express address book to the Address Book program in OS X?

[alia]

This may be the wrong answer, but I'm pretty positive that Address Book can read standard vcards. Your friend should be able to export her contacts from Outlook as vcards and then open them in address book that way.

Alia

[aafuss1]

You could use Window's Address Book to export all her contacts into vCard files-but one at a time. To do this:
1. Start menu-Programs-Accessories-Address Book or in XP, Start-All Programs-Accessories-Address Book.
2. In Window's Address Book accessory, select one contact to export .
3. Go to File-Export-Business Card (vCard) and then save it.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for each other contact you want.

[shecky]

you can export all of the contacts from outlook exspress as a comma separated value (.CSV) which I am pretty sure Address book will let you import. (i can't try it as my Powerbook doesnt get here for a week or so)

Also i am not sure if address book will import the microsoft standard .WAB file, but thats worth a shot also.

[jalagl]

I made the switch a couple of months ago, and basically had the same problem. I did an export of the Windows Address Book as a Comma Separated Value (CSV) file, only to later find out that OSX's address book can only import TAB separated Value (TSV) files. Nothing a quick sed script couldn't fix, though...

[peterj1967]

The export as CSV and such should work fine, when I moved my address book from Outlook I used the VB script from this thread. Worked great. Don't know if will work with expess, but this was one simple step.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10520