One Address Book won't import to TBird fr. Outlook

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One Address Book won't import to TBird fr. Outlook

Postby richard mitnick » Sat 24 May, 2008 2:56 am

I just installed TBird on a second computer. Everything went fine except that one out of three of my PhoneBooks did not import.

I tried several times, all I got was additional copies of the others.

I have the phonebook also in an excel file, but TBird seems to have no way to deal with that.

I very much need to get this phonebook into TBird and it is too large to do manually.

Any help?

Thanks,

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Postby Don_HH2K » Sat 24 May, 2008 8:27 am

I think both Outlook and Thunderbird support the CSV format for their address books, so you may want to give an import/export with that format a try.
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Postby richard mitnick » Sat 24 May, 2008 11:51 am

Hey Don-

Yes, I had forgotten about the .csv file format. I did it. The lining up of categories in the TBird program is a pain in the butt, but, I did it, it worked fine.

Thanks again.

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