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Upgrading from Hotmail
The next step is to add your Gmail or Yahoo! account to Outlook. See the
“Adding an e-mail account” section, later in this chapter. After you have
added your account, in Outlook choose File➪Import from the menu bar to
import the contacts from the .csv you saved from the Web. See the later
section, “Importing Contacts from a Text File,” for directions.
Upgrading from Hotmail
The default configuration that Outlook provides for Hotmail is a POP
account. We prefer to use IMAP with Hotmail. To use IMAP with Hotmail, we
found a wonderful application called mBox Mail for Mac. It’s $19.99 USD and
works beautifully with Outlook 2011! (No, we don’t get a cut of the price.)
Here’s where to get it:
http://fluentfactory.com/mboxmail-for-mac
See the later section, “Adding an e-mail account,” for instructions on how to
add your Hotmail account to Outlook.
Search Hotmail Help for instructions on how to export your contacts in the
Comma Separated Values (.csv) file format, which Outlook can import
into your Outlook address book, as explained in the next section. Contacts
between Outlook and the Web can’t be synchronized.
Importing Contacts from a Text File
As we mention earlier in this chapter, sometimes you need to make a .csv
file of your contacts in a different e-mail program so that you can bring your
contacts into Outlook. Outlook also supports -delimited text file formats
such as tab (.txt), comma (.csv), and MBOX file formats, which you can use
if your old e-mail program is capable of saving in these formats. Importing
Contacts is straightforward using a short series of dialogs:
1. In Outlook, choose File➪Import from the menu bar.
The Begin Import dialog displays.
2. Select Contacts or Messages from a Text File and then click the
right-arrow button at the lower-right corner of the dialog.
The Choose a File Type dialog displays.
3. Depending on the file type you need to import, choose either
• Import Contacts from a Tab- or Comma-Delimited Text File.
• Import Messages from an MBOX-Format Text File.
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