[pchelpers] Re: address book / from Thunderbird to Outlook?

Re-Na,

CSV file

You might want too try exporting the address file from Outlook to a CSV 
file if possible and see the format of the headers, in other words the 
fields coming from Thunderbird have to be identical to the OUTLOOK 
fields in order for the OUTLOOK import to be in the right columns.  I am 
not sure if OUTLOOK import actually requires the header titles to be 
identical, it may accept them if they are in the proper sequence.

Cy

You can edit

G.R. Hanson wrote:
> Ekhart GEORGI (last name last) wrote:
>   
>> Hi Re-Na
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>>     
>>> Thanks.
>>> I'm still trying to find the right 'path' so I can do that.
>>>     
>>>       
>> No need to worry about where you save the exported file; save it on the 
>> desktop for example and then go there when you click "import" in 
>> Outlook. In other words, you don't push the info directly into Outlook; 
>> you first export it from TB and then import it using Outlook. There's no 
>> need to know the path of where Outlook keeps its data.
>>
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> That was what I needed to know!  I saved it initially as a 'comma 
> separated' file and imported it as such.
> It was 'contacts' that I did this too.
> Well, wait a minute.  Ok, it looked like it worked, but in Outlook all I 
> have in the contacts is all the names.
> It did not put the details.  No email address with the names, or other 
> data. 
> Oh bummer.
>
> Here is what I did.
> Thunderbird / address book / tools / export /
> save file type as file separated / named the file 'contacts' / saved to 
> desktop
>
> in Outlook
> File / import and export / import from another program or file <guessed 
> this was the right one to click but maybe it wasn't?>.......
> Select file type / I selected: comma separated values<windows>
> Files to import / browse to the desktop to the 'contacts' path
> Select destination folder ...... I put it in contacts under personal 
> folders.  Did not see one called address book.
> Finish.
>
> If there is a way to get the actual 'addresses' over to Outlook from 
> Thunderbird.... please let me know what I did wrong so I can do it right.
> Thank you!
>
> Re-Na
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Cyril Halbach
Williamsburg Kentucky



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