Importing your Outlook contacts to the Mac Address Book can be tricky, especially if you want to avoid losing non-text data like images or if you don’t want to spend money on tools. Here’s a free and easy method to get it done:
- Open Outlook (I’m using 2007) and go to Contacts.
- Select all the contacts, right-click, and choose “Send as Business Card.” This will attach all selected contacts to an email.
- Send the email to an account that your Mac can access.
- On your Mac, open the email and save all attached contacts (Save -> All) to your hard drive.
- Use Finder to navigate to the folder where you saved the contacts.
- Drag and drop the saved contact files into the Address Book.
This method is a bit cumbersome if you have many contacts—I had 238, and sending them took some time—but it’s a free solution.
For those who are sync enthusiasts, like myself, you can go to Address Book and navigate to Settings -> Accounts. Check the “Sync with Google” option to upload your contacts to the cloud.
Enjoy your hassle-free contact import!