Monday, September 8, 2008

Converting Your Outlook Calendar to Entourage

I am glad you found this post if you are looking to transfer your calendar from outlook to entourage. I found this thread from an austrailian thread. You rock man!!

First of all I made a CSV copy of Outlook Calendar and copied it to my Mac as a CSV document. That worked fine by copying it to my external drive and making the transfer that way. The CSV file is one file.

Well, I thought there may be other Internet calendars out there, so I Googled on that topic. I found that Google has an Internet Calendar which I loaded. I went to the left hand side and saw “Other Calendars”, pressed the down arrow opposite “Add”, selected “Import Calendar”, followed the directions, loaded the CSV file form Outlook and shazam, my whole Outlook Calendar loaded.

After Google Calendar was completed with all of my transactions back to 2005 (the date I arbitrarily set as the start date for my CSV file) I went to “My Calendars” on the full Calendar page, selected “Settings” which brought me to the “Export My Calendars” button (which said “Download a zipped file containing each of your calendars in .ics format”). I followed the process and it downloaded the complete Calendar in one very easy short step to Entourage Calendar. My Entourage Calendar is now completely up to date.

10 Comments:

At February 11, 2009 7:54 AM , Blogger Bill said...

thank you!!!

 
At March 1, 2009 10:53 PM , Blogger Silicon Cookware said...

THANKS! I did the cvs file, too, but couldn't get it to work.

 
At March 8, 2009 11:29 AM , Blogger Pablo said...

Tank you.
You're great!!
Succesfully completed.
Easy way and simple explanation. Congratulations !!!

 
At May 17, 2009 9:50 PM , Blogger pwagner said...

Thank you so much for writing up the steps so clearly that even I (not very savvy) could follow it! You saved me hours of frustration!

 
At May 21, 2009 2:37 PM , Blogger strongfinger said...

thanks for the instructions.
as an addition, you may wish to mention that by default, the mac may attempt to open iCal when a .ics file is acted upon. the solution to this is to cancel / quit iCal, find the downloaded .ics file, command+I to get info and change the 'open with...' instruction from iCal to entourage. then you simply double-click on same file, wait a while depending on the amount of data you have to import, and there you go!

cheers,
randall

 
At July 9, 2009 7:47 AM , Anonymous Support said...

Outlook to Entourage also offers a program that will transfer the Calendar items, contacts, email and attachments into the Entourage program. Here's a link to their site:
http://www.convertmyemail.com/outlook-to-entourage.php

 
At October 6, 2009 2:42 PM , Anonymous Jrheimbigner said...

Thanks man!! That works great, I'll put this up on twitter and facebook. worked great!!!

 
At October 9, 2009 6:15 PM , Blogger Pam said...

You made my day! Maybe even my week! Thanks.

 
At October 31, 2009 4:14 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

it's even easier to select the calendar in outlook, go to file -> save as... and it can directly be saved in *.ics format.

 
At January 8, 2010 8:09 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!

 

Post a Comment

<< Home