This page lists software tools and techniques for converting addresses between dozens of different formats, including Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Exchange Server, Netscape, Eudora, HTML, scheduling applications and many others. Some tools are free, but most are commercial applications that must be purchased. Here you'll find tools for both home and small office users as well as tools that can support the largest corporate migrations.
Convert To and From...
Use the following chart to select the programs you need to convert from and to.
| To convert from: | To: |
|---|---|
| From: Windows Address Book (.wab) on Windows 7 or 8 | To: Comma-delimited text file, vCard, Outlook Contacts |
| Use: Address Magic Personal if you also need to convert email. If you only need to convert contacts in the wab file, you can go through Windows contacts. | |
| From: Netscape 4/6/7; Thunderbird; Exchange GAL; Outlook contacts; Eudora Light/Pro; Windows Address Book; Outlook Personal Address Book; GroupWise; LDIF; Opera 6/7; Pine; AOL 4 through 9; Lotus Notes; Pegasus; Windows Contacts. | To: Netscape 4.x; Outlook contacts; Eudora Light/Pro; Windows Address Book; Personal Address Book; GroupWise; LDIF; Opera 6/7; Lotus Notes; Pegasus; vCard; Windows Contacts. |
| Use: Address Magic Personal or Address Magic Enterprise (100 users or more) | |
| From: Exchange Server Global Address Book | To: Comma-delimited text file, Outlook Contacts, Personal Address Book, Eudora, Netscape, Windows Address Book |
| Use: Portable GAL | |
| From: Active Directory, Exchange 5.5 GAL, Lotus Notes, iPlanet, SQL Server, Oracle, MMS, any ODBC compliant data source * | To: Active Directory, Exchange 5.5 GAL |
| Use: Directory Transformation Manager | |
| From: Any Word 7.0 mail merge source (Access .mdb, text file, etc.) | To: Personal Address Book |
| Import to Personal Address Book | |
| From: Cardfile | To: Personal Address Book or Microsoft Outlook Contacts |
| Use Transfile.exe (61kb) or AZZ Cardfile to convert the Cardfile entries to a tab-delimited file. Then import directly into Microsoft Outlook or use Import to Personal Address Book to import for Microsoft Exchange. | |
| From: Eudora nicknames file | To: Personal Address Book |
| Method #1: Address Magic Personal Method #2: In Outlook Express, choose File | Import | Address Book. Then, choose File | Export | Address Book and export to Personal Address Book. Method #3: YooDoormat Method #4: Open in Microsoft Word, search and replace "<" with Tab (a special character) and ">" with nothing to create a tab-delimited file. You should then be able to use Import to Personal Address Book on it. | |
| From: Eudora Pro or Light (through ver. 3) nicknames file | Outlook Contacts Folder |
| Method #1 (Outlook 98 through 2003): In Outlook, choose File | Import and Export | Import Internet Mail and Addresses. Method #2: Address Magic Personal Method #3: (Outlook 97) In Outlook Express, choose File | Import | Address Book. Then, use WabOut, or use File | Export | Address Book and export to a comma-delimited text file, which Outlook can import. | |
| From: Microsoft Mail Address Book | Personal Address Book |
| In Exchange, choose File | Import and point to your MS Mail .mmf file. | |
| From: Netscape Address Book | Personal Address Book |
| Method #1: Address Magic Personal Method #2: In Outlook Express, choose File | Import | Address Book. Then, choose File | Import | Address Book and export to Personal Address Book. Works for Netscape 4.0 but not Netscape 4.5 or 7. Method #3: If you have Word 7.0, try Nscpabb2, a Word template file. It does not work with Word 97 and will not be ported, so please don't ask. | |
| From: Netscape Address Book | Outlook Contacts Folder |
| Method #1 (Outlook 98/2000/2002): In Outlook, choose File | Import and Export | Import Internet Mail and Addresses. Works for Netscape 4.0. Method #2: Address Magic Personal (Works for Netscape 4, 6 and 7.) Method #3: See OL98- Migrating from Netscape Mail to Outlook. Method #4: In Outlook Express, choose File | Import | Address Book. Then, use WabOut, or use File | Export | Address Book and export to a comma-delimited text file, which Outlook can import. Works for Netscape 4.0, not for 4.5/4.6/4.7. Method #5: Go through Outlook Express. See: OL2000 How to Import Mail and Addresses from Netscape Messenger 4.5 and Later OL2002 How to Import Messages and Addresses from Netscape Messenger 4.5 and Later | |
| From: Schedule+ Contacts list | Personal Address Book |
| Import to Personal Address Book | |
| From: Windows Address Book from Outlook Express | Personal Address Book |
| Method #1: Address Magic Personal Method #2: In Outlook Express, choose File | Export | Address Book and export to Personal Address Book. | |
| From: Windows Address Book from Outlook Express | Windows Address Book from Outlook Express |
| Method #1 (Outlook 98 or later): If Outlook Express is not using the .wab file you want to import, you'll need to import the file into Outlook Express first. In Outlook Express, choose File | Import | Address Book, and choose the .wab file. Then, in Outlook, choose File | Import and Export | Import Internet Mail and Addresses. Method #2: Address Magic Personal Method #3: WabOut, but only for Outlook 97 Method #4: Use File | Export | Address Book and export to a comma-delimited text file, which Outlook can import. | |
| From: Windows Address Book from Microsoft Internet Mail | Personal Address Book |
| Address Magic Personal | |
| From: Personal Address Book | Comma-delimited text file |
| Perform a mail merge with MS Word 7.0 or 97, using the PAB as the data source. I prefer the catalog format myself. | |
| From: Personal Address Book | Windows Address Book (Outlook Express) |
| From Outlook Express, choose File | Import | Address Book. | |
| From: Outlook Contacts Folder | Windows Address Book (Outlook Express) Note: Outlook 98/2000 in Internet Mail Only mode can share an address list between OE and Outlook. |
| Method #1: Address Magic Personal Method #2: From Outlook, choose File | Import and Export and export as a comma-delimited text file. Then, from Outlook Express, choose File | Import | Address Book and import that file. | |
| From: Eudora or Pegasus | Pegasus or Eudora |
| ECONV 1.0 Eudora <--> Pegasus Email Conversion | |
| From: Eudora, Netscape, Pegasus, Pine, Elm, several others | Eudora, Netscape, Pegasus, Pine, Elm, several others |
| Mail System Converter. Also see Interguru's E-mail Address Conversions | |
| From: America Online (AOL) | Outlook |
| ePreserver | |
| From: GroupWise | Outlook |
| See OL2000 How to Import a GroupWise Personal Address Book Use GroupWise Migrator for Exchange or Address Magic Enterprise (100 users or more) | |
| From: Outlook, Netscape, Outlook Express, Juno, Eudora, Pegasus, Corel, LDAP/LDIF, comma-delimited and plain text formats | Outlook, Netscape, Outlook Express, Juno, Eudora, Pegasus, Corel, LDAP/LDIF, comma-delimited and plain text formats |
| Dawn | |
| From: Outlook, ACT!, Goldmine, Palm Desktop | Outlook, ACT!, Goldmine, Palm Desktop |
| AddressGrabber | |
| From: Outlook, Entourage, Excel, Palm Desktop, other Windows and Macintosh PIMs | Outlook, Entourage, Excel, Palm Desktop, other Windows and Macintosh PIMs |
| Export-Import for Entourage | |
| From: Outlook Contacts | vCard in bulk |
| Outlook2Mac, VCard Converter Outlook Add-In, Address Magic Personal, Vcard4Outlook, SyncWiz | |
| From: Outlook Contacts | Text file |
| ClipForm | |
| From: Netscape 4.0, Eudora | Outlook 97 |
| Import addresses to Outlook Express, then export them to a Personal Address Book or to a comma-delimited file for import into a Contacts folder in Microsoft Outlook 97. | |
| From: Microsoft Exchange, Outlook, Lotus Notes, GroupWise, Netscape, Eudora, Outlook Express, Lotus cc:Mail, IMAP4 Server, America Online, Pegasus, MHS, Notework, Compuserve, or DaVinci | Microsoft Exchange, Outlook, Lotus Notes, GroupWise, Netscape, Eudora, Outlook Express, Lotus cc:Mail, IMAP4 Server, America Online, Pegasus, MHS, Notework, Compuserve, or DaVinci |
| Transend Migrator | |
More Information
- Converting Messages
- Synchronizing Microsoft Outlook with a PDA
- Importing to Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft Outlook Contacts Issues - Import/Export
- InterGuru's E-Mail Address Conversions
- OLEXP How to Export Outlook Express Addresses into Outlook 97
When converting from wab to LDIF format using Outlook Express' csv export I ran into trouble with Turkish an Russian chars, the tool at https://outlookexpress-thunderbird.7xl.org works better in comparison.
I'm a non tech person who is trying to move my contacts from a mac Os 5.8 using entourage, to a new pc (windows 7 professional). neither Windows contacts nor yahoo seem to recognize the vcf i saved my contacts as. I do not want to re-enter everything if at all possible. thanks
The contacts were exported as a single vcf file? Can Entourage export to a CSV? That will be the easiest. If you have a gmail account, you can import it to gmail then export as CSV. Some of the utilities here - https://www.slipstick.com/outlook/contacts/import-vcards-in-bulk-into-outlook/ - will import a multi-card vcf too.
I have used VBA to change my Outlook Display names. Very good thankyou, I will keep some of these articles for reference. Regards