Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition

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Transferring from Outlook Express

If you’ve been using Outlook Express (Microsoft’s free email program) on the Windows

PC, you’ll have very little trouble moving into any of the Mac’s email programs.

Moving Your Address Book

You have two alternatives at your disposal:

• The free method. You can use free Windows software as a go-between—but which

Mac address book you’ve adopted will determine which program to use.

To import your Outlook Express addresses into Apple’s Address Book, follow the

instructions in “Netscape 7 Method (Lengthy, Free)” on page 168.

To import them into Microsoft Entourage instead, see “CSV Method (Free, to En-

tourage Only)” on page 170.

• The Move2Mac method. The Move2Mac kit is described on page 136 (and dis-

counted at the back of this book). It does an elegant job of transferring contacts

from Outlook Express on your PC to the Mac’s Address Book program.

Those are, however, the only email programs it handles. Move2Mac won’t import

the addresses into Entourage instead of Address Book.

Moving Your Mail

Outlook Express is also a pleasant partner when it comes to moving the messages

themselves over to the Mac. Here again, you use Netscape 7 as a sort of translator.

Follow the steps listed under “Netscape Method (Time-Consuming, Free),” begin-

ning on page 161.

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