Comments on: Convert AOL Address Book to Outlook http://blog.kevindonahue.com/archives/2004/03/12/convert_aol_address_book_to_outlook/ Outlooks on hospitality sales and marketing in the social media era Sat, 13 Aug 2011 19:09:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Marc http://blog.kevindonahue.com/archives/2004/03/12/convert_aol_address_book_to_outlook/#comment-3170 Marc Fri, 02 Jul 2004 05:36:09 +0000 http://blog.kevindonahue.com/archives/2004/03/12/convert_aol_address_book_to_outlook/#comment-3170 This is a bit cumbersome, but it's how I got my Dad to kick the AOL habit and export his AOL 6.0 address book.

1. Go to AOL.com, login and open your address book.

2. Since the list in the window is HTML it can be viewed as a text file by right-clicking on "View Source"

3. Save or copy the part of the source code with the names and addresses in it to a .txt file.

4. I then cleaned up the file in WORD by doing a search and replace on most of the non-data characters. (Hint: Use the "View Hidden Characters" option in Word).

5. Save that file and re-import it into Excel. Excel will then give you nice choices on making the file into nice neat columns.

6. Clean up the Excel file and re-save.

7. Import the Excel file into Outlook using the Import function.

It's not easy, and it's not perfect, but it's free, and works pretty well.

Good luck.

]]> By: Jim http://blog.kevindonahue.com/archives/2004/03/12/convert_aol_address_book_to_outlook/#comment-3169 Jim Tue, 22 Jun 2004 22:03:02 +0000 http://blog.kevindonahue.com/archives/2004/03/12/convert_aol_address_book_to_outlook/#comment-3169 Have you tried ePreserver? It can convert your AOL email, address book, and favorites places to Outlook or Outlook Express all at once without having to figure out how to install the Java Runtime system. ePreserver even supports AOL 8 and 9. It is, however, commercial software.

http://www.connectedsw.com/Overview/57266

]]> By: Kevin http://blog.kevindonahue.com/archives/2004/03/12/convert_aol_address_book_to_outlook/#comment-3168 Kevin Wed, 19 May 2004 19:54:25 +0000 http://blog.kevindonahue.com/archives/2004/03/12/convert_aol_address_book_to_outlook/#comment-3168 Thanks for repeating the above, Andrew. Nice work, sir. Again, this will only work if you're using AOL version 7 or below. That's been stated here several times and is included in the post above several months ago. Gracias.

]]> By: Andrew Dennison http://blog.kevindonahue.com/archives/2004/03/12/convert_aol_address_book_to_outlook/#comment-3167 Andrew Dennison Wed, 19 May 2004 18:56:33 +0000 http://blog.kevindonahue.com/archives/2004/03/12/convert_aol_address_book_to_outlook/#comment-3167 Kevin this is from http://www.aoleave.com/addbook.html

"To use the Address Book tool you must save your Address Book from the AOL interface."

]]> By: Kevin http://blog.kevindonahue.com/archives/2004/03/12/convert_aol_address_book_to_outlook/#comment-3166 Kevin Sun, 16 May 2004 18:29:34 +0000 http://blog.kevindonahue.com/archives/2004/03/12/convert_aol_address_book_to_outlook/#comment-3166 Reading is fundamental, Chris. The instructions are for versions 6 & 7, not versions 8 or 9.

For more recent versions of AOL, you can "SYNC" your address book easily between Outlook, Outlook Express and several other tools. For complete instructions, AOL Keyword "sync" or check this AOL help page.

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