Office X for Macintosh: The Missing Manual

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or Palm Desktop—or from a special text file (tab- or comma-delimited). This pro-

cess may feel familiar; it’s the same Import Assistant you saw when setting up En-

tourage for the first time.

If you choose to import information from one of these nine programs, Entourage

asks you what information you would like to grab—such as contacts or calendar

events—and then proceeds to inhale that information.

If, on the other hand, you choose to import contacts from a text file, Entourage asks

you for the location of that text file. Then it opens the Import Contacts window (see

Figure 10-5).

To align the fields in the list so that they match up with the corresponding tidbits of

address info, drag them up or down, using the ribbed rectangular handle that ap-

pears on each line. If there are unmapped fields—fields from your older address

book software that Entourage isn’t sure what to do with—you can drag them from

the “Unmapped fields” section into the proper place on the left side of the window.

Once you’ve lined up all the fields correctly, click Import (or press Enter) to bring

your social circle into its new software home.

Exporting Contacts

Exporting Entourage’s contacts is a lot simpler than importing them, because En-

tourage offers but one option for export—the time-honored tab-delimited text file.

When the day comes that you want to bring your little black book ...