Hi Neil,
If you open AppleScript Utility and check 'Show Script Menu in Menu
Bar',
you will see the Script Menu provides 16 premade categories, which
incorporate over 100 scripts.
In the Address Book Scripts folder you will see 'Import Addresses',
which is designed to move your names and addresses into Address Book
from Entourage, Outlook Express, Palm Desktop, Eudora, Claris Emailer,
or Netscape.
Having a look at the script: It will tell application 'Microsoft
Entourage' to set vCardData etc to enable import into Address Book.
"This script is used in conjunction with the Import Addresses script. It
implements address importing from Microsoft Entourage through the
importToAddressBook handler."
Address Book can import files in vCard format, the less common LDIF
format or tab-separated database files.
If you want to learn more about AppleScript, you can download
'AppleScript Language Guide 2008' from here:
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleScript/Conceptual/AppleScriptLangGuide/AppleScriptLanguageGuide.pdf
>
Cheers,
Ronni
On 26/07/2008, at 1:19 PM, Neil Houghton wrote:
Hi Ronni,
So, what would be the point of the Apple supplied scripts - are they
for
some slightly different purpose or just redundant?
Cheers
Neil
on 25/7/08 10:06 PM, Ronda Brown at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Michael & Neil,
The easiest way is to open Entourage and export all the entries as
vCards into a folder.
Then open Address Book and simply drag all the vCards into Address
Book or use the Import vCards option under Address Book's File menu.
You can also In the Preferences menu for Entourage, you can select
the
option to synchronize your calendar and contacts with iCal and
Address
Book.
Entourage > Preferences > Sync Services
Cheers,
Ronni
On 25/07/2008, at 7:24 PM, Neil Houghton wrote:
Hi Michael,
I don't know how relevant it is but I recently noticed that in the
"AppleScript" folder (in Applications) there is an alias to "Example
Scripts".
In this folder there are folders for both "Address Book Scripts" and
"Mail
Scripts" and in each of these folders is a folder called "Address
Importers"
which contains a script called "Entourage.scpt"
I would imagine that these would import your Entourage contacts. (I
haven't
used any of these scripts myself).
HTH
Neil
on 25/7/08 6:13 PM, Michael Hawkins at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I've answered my own question.
Exported contacts to a file saved on the desktop called Contacts
Export.txt
and then imported that file into Address Book.
I want to copy contacts from Entourage (Office 2004) to Address
Book but when
I try to do it by exporting from Entourage as tab-delimited text
Address
Book
is greyed out .
Is there an easier way than copy and paste?
OS 10.5.4
Address Book 4.11
Thank you,
Michael Hawkins.
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