A simpler way of importing Outlook contacts in csv format into the OS X Address Book.
*** Requires a Gmail account (I haven’t checked Hotmail or Yahoo mail) ***
A friend of mine has recently migrated from a Windows PC to Mac. They needed to import their (Windows) Outlook contacts into their new Apple OS X Address Book. Simple? nope. OS X address book does not let you import .csv files directly.
A bit of Googling later and it was proving to be very difficult. The simplest way I found involved downloading Mozilla Thunderbird, importing the .csv, matching all the .csv fields with the Thunderbird fields, exporting as an ldif, then importing the ldif into the address book.
There is a much simpler way
1. Import your .csv file into your Gmail contacts.
2. Select all your contacts in Gmail.
3. Export as v-card.
4. Import into address book.
5. Done.
This post is tagged address book, os x, outlook, windows
