Section 6.5. Transferring Your Eudora Address Book

6.5. Transferring Your Eudora Address Book

Once again, the steps here depend on which program you'll be using as your Mac address book.

6.5.1. Moving Contacts into Address Book

Fortunately, this one's easy. The Swiss Army Converter known as Netscape 7 can convert your Eudora address book into a Mac-compatible format; see "Netscape 7 Method (Lengthy, Free)" on Section 6.2.

6.5.2. Moving Contacts into Entourage

As noted earlier in this chapter, Netscape isn't enough if the landing site for your contacts is Microsoft Entourage. In that case, you should use the CSV format as a go-between. See "CSV Method (Free, Entourage Only)" on Section 6.2.3.

6.5.3. Moving Contacts into Eudora on the Mac

The easiest way to transfer your old Eudora contacts to the Mac is to first get your contacts into Mac OS X's Address Book program, as described above. Then, once that transfer is complete, open Eudora on your Mac and choose Eudora Preferences Address Book. Turn on "Show OS X AddressBook."

Now all the contacts from your PC are in both Address Book and Eudora, which is extra convenient if you ever decide to switch from Eudora to Mail.