Migrating from Outlook to iCal

Part of my switch from Windows to OSX involved figuring out how to get my Outlook Calendar data from Windows/Outlook to MacOSX/iCal. I was really dreading having to manually reenter the whole thing.

Thanks to Norm Jones and Mike Baas who wrote the Outlook Calendar to iCal Macros the migration was a snap. I installed the macros in Outlook, exported to an iCal file, imported it into iCal and I was off and running. Everything came over including recurring meetings. The only thing that didn’t transfer was whether a reminder is supposed to go off before a meeting. In any case, it saved me a lot of time, thanks Norm and Mike!

Here’s the sourceforge page for the Outlook to iCal converter!

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3 Responses to Migrating from Outlook to iCal

  1. Another program, that helps tremendously in switching from Outlook to the default OSX equivalents, is Outlook2Mac (http://www.littlemachines.com/). An incredible timesaver, and has worked on the largest of mailboxes that Outlook has spit at me.

  2. Jeff says:

    I’m curious – why not use the calendaring in Entorauge? IMO, Microsoft actually got it _RIGHT_ with their Office suite on Mac. Entorauge is fantastic, especially the project stuff.

  3. Andrew says:

    Because iCal just does calender stuff… it does it really well, and in a way that integrates with everything on a mac (and on the web)… So why use Entorauge?

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