Importing Calendar and Contacts into Entourage

As mentioned in the previous post, Entourage is not Outlook and there is no straightforward way to migrate from Outlook into Entourage. After a lot of googling and trial and error, I finally accidentally stumbled upon the best way to do this. I was lucky that I had imported Outlook Contacts and Calendar into Address Book and iCal already.

Address Book

Open Address Book, select all entries. Incidentally, I haven't found an easy way to do this yet. In Windows, I would press 'Shift'+'Ctrl'+'PgDn' until I hit the end of the list. In OS X, I just have to press 'Shift'+Down key all through the list.) Drag and drop the entries to the Desktop, then drag and drop them into Entourage Address Book. And that's it. You can't drag and drop across applications, it will not work. You must drag it from Address Book to the desktop and then into Entourage for it to work.

Calendar

This took me a bit longer to figure and I can't remember exactly what I did. I believe I

File -> Export

Then drag and dropped the .ics file from the desktop into Entourage.

Again, dragging and dropping between applications does not work. I had to use the desktop as an intermediary in both Address Book and Calendar.

Another Keyboard Disappointment

In Blogger, you can find these instructions at the bottom of the edit panel

Shortcuts: press Ctrl with: B = Bold, I = Italic, P = Publish, S = Save, D = Draft

I still have not figured out what Ctrl refers to in this case. I tried 'Command', 'Option' and 'Control', those keys together with 'FN', and none of them seem to work. Something to research and play around with.

I also miss the 'Ctrl+Backspace' and 'Ctrl+Del' keys from Windows. I hope there are equivalents with OS X.

And a File Management Disappointment

I have not figured out how to do easy file manipulation on the desktop, namely file renaming. In Windows, I would select the file, press F2 and type away. In OS X, it seems like you need to 'Control+Click' -> Get Info, and then edit the details from the Get Info window. Kind of roundabout, I would say. Maybe there is an easier way, another thing for me to find out.