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ABFiller: Importing Outlook Contacts made easy

ABFillerI’ve blogged three ways to import contacts from Outlook or Outlook Express into Address Book, using Outlook2Mac or by manual exporting and by using Mozilla. All of them are long and involved.

A freeware utility called ABFiller simplifies the process enormously, reducing it to six mouse clicks.

  1. Open the app.

  2. Select File > Open.

  3. Navigate to your PST file.

  4. Select it and click Open.

  5. Click OK in the next dialog to being importing.

  6. Click OK when the process is finished.

Good news for switchers everywhere! I wish I had known about this when I was switching.

ABFiller is freeware and available from the developer’s web site.

{Thanks, Andreas!].

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5 Responses to “ABFiller: Importing Outlook Contacts made easy”

  1. Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Statistical Celebration / Weekly Update says:
    December 20th, 2005 at 12:10 am

    [...] ABFiller (Address Book importer for Outlook PST files) was added to the Switching section. [...]

  2. Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Importing Contacts from Outlook or Outlook Express says:
    December 26th, 2005 at 7:42 am

    [...] 1. Use ABFiller, an app that extracts contact information from your PST file. [...]

  3. Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Wife Swapping: Ms Thurrott’s post-Xmas switch says:
    December 29th, 2005 at 7:24 am

    [...] He then explains how easy it was to set up her Hotmail account in Apple Mail, and the painless process of getting her data over with Outlook2Mac despite a large number of archive folders. Admittedly, there were some hiccups with Address Book and iCal. (Should have used ABFiller!). [...]

  4. Antitheos says:
    July 8th, 2007 at 3:28 am

    Just moved to mac, and i have spent a great deal of time trying to move my contacts and mail from outlook on my XP machine, i found a great utility (MessageSave) that exported the files in .mbox and .vsf formats which were easily imported in my mac. Its a commercial product, but there is a trial version which is limited to 50 records per export.

  5. Nathan says:
    October 31st, 2007 at 5:17 pm

    You can also use Thunderbird under windows to convert to mbox first.

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