kevin s Posted November 7, 2003 Share Posted November 7, 2003 Anyone know how to import a Eudora 6.0 address book into Outlook (Office XP)?There is a click available for Eudora 2.x,3.x and 4.x, but not 5.x or 6.0. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted November 7, 2003 Share Posted November 7, 2003 (edited) Might want to check out a great little freeware program called: Dawn.From the feature list page: If you have ever wanted to switch E-Mail programs or even simply use that WordPerfect address book in Outlook Express you have no doubt been put off by being forced to retype every single address by hand. Well, retype no more. Dawn Version 5.2 recognizes a plethora of information stored in many address books, from nickname to pager number. Aside from converting, you can display addresses onscreen and edit any or all information in each record and each operation is described in detail in the online help included with the package. Dawn works with the following programs:Becky! -- Known to work with versions 2.00.08 Corel WordPerfect Address Book 8.x Eudora -- Known to work with versions 3.0, 4.3, 5.0, 5.1, and 5.2 ExecMail / Simeon Internet Explorer / Outlook Express / Windows Address Book (WAB) 4.0 - 6.0 -- Known to work with versions 4.0, 5.0, 5.5, and 6.0 Juno 2.0 - 5.0 -- Known to work with versions 2.0.11, 4.3.09, 4.3.11, and 5.0.33 Mozilla -- Known to work with versions 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9.2, 0.9.3, 0.9.7, 1.0, 1.2, 1.3 Netscape 3.0 - 7.0 -- Known to work with versions 3.0, 3.03, 4.0, 4.7, 4.78, 6.0, 6.01, 6.1, 6.2, 6.21, 7.0 MS Outlook 98 / 2000 / 2002 -- Outlook 97 not supported Opera -- Known to work with versions 5.1, 5.2, 6.0, 7.0 Palm support through Palm Desktop (read only) -- Known to work with versions 3.01, 4.0, 4.1 Pegasus Mail -- Known to work with version 3.12b, 4.01 Pine (PC and UNIX) -- Mailing Lists not supported Other programs which can use/import/export LDAP/LDIF, vCard (VCF), Comma Separated Value (CSV), plain text, one per line or comma separated formats or store addresses in a text file suitable for extraction Edited November 7, 2003 by LilBambi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin s Posted November 7, 2003 Author Share Posted November 7, 2003 Great idea. Thanks. I'll try it. We will see if it works with Eudora 6.0. I'll post back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted November 7, 2003 Share Posted November 7, 2003 Yeah, you never know. It might work.Another option, if available in Eudora 6.x, is to export the addressbook in some text delimited format (csv, txt) and import into Outlook Express. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin s Posted November 7, 2003 Author Share Posted November 7, 2003 Yeah, I tried the export to a .csv, but it got real squirrely. I had to manually assign lines that I couldn't see to catagories like name, address, etc. Real cumbersome, so I gave up.The "dawn" program sorta' works, but is a little funky. It identifies work phone numbers as home numbers, and missed a few email addresses entirely, while duplicating others. It DID work much better than anything else I tried, and of course, the price was right.For now, I will stick with Eudora. I can't get Outlook to hold the setting for leaving messages on the (ISP) server. I am not using server software. I have a couple machines peer-to-peered. Maybe that's the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted November 7, 2003 Share Posted November 7, 2003 One nice thing about csv format. It opens in Excel, so you can pre-manipulate the data, then import. Is that what you were doing too?I found Dawn to be pretty good. Had to fix a couple things in the addressbook conversion, but overall it did a pretty darn good job for me (but at that time, I was going from Outlook Express to Pegasus).At least I didn't have to manually re-type nearly 400 records!When I went to Mozilla's Thunderbird, it seamlessly imported my Outlook Express address book. I have not looked back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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