Moving Outlook Contacts to Mac OS X Address Book

Don’t bother with any of Outlook’s “export as text/cvs” functions, importing these files is nearly impossible. Exporting as vCard is conveniently not an option. “Save As” vCard is possible, but you can only do it for one contact at a time.

Here’s the easy way to get Outlook to save a whole bunch of vCards for you:

1. Open Outlook Contacts list.
2. Select all your contacts. This may be easiest in “Address Cards” view.
3. In the “Action” menu, select “Forward as vCard”.
4. Wait a moment while Outlook creates a new email with all of your contacts attached to it as vCards.
5. Send this email to yourself.
6. Upon receipt of this email, save all the attachments to a location your mac can access, then import them into your Mac OS X Address Book.