On 10/15/09 6:14 AM, "Roger Cohen" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 4) Currently Entourage Address Book and Entourage Calendar sync with > Apple's Address Book.app and iCal.app. > > There must be some procedure to import my old Mac's iCal and Address > Book.app from the old Mac (OS 10.4.11) into the new Mac (OS 10.6.x). Then I > would need to sync the new Mac's iCal and Address Book.app with the new > installation of Entourage -- which itself would be an "import" from the old > Mac's Mac's Entourage. > > If I reinstall Entourage on the new Mac, will that cause sync problems with > the new Address Book.app and iCal.app? (I am thinking that the answer to > that one is "no, until I turn on the Entourage pref for "sync"). > > If I use the previous MUD folder, will it cause any problems syncing with > the new Address Book.app and iCal.app? (I have not yet asked Apple how to > get my existing Address Book.app and iCal.app from OS 10.4.11 in the new OS > 10.6.x.) I'm not sure I understand the question, or what you are proposing to do. I recently set up a Mac with a fresh install of Snow Leopard (10.6). The hard disk had crashed in this Mac, and I needed to rebuild everything on a new hard disk. So I started with a blank HD, and I ran the Snow Leopard installer on it. I set up my preferences in Finder, Network, etc. Then I installed Office 2008 from the installer disk. I launched Entourage so it could create its folder hierarchy. I ran updates on Office 2008 until there were no more to install. Then I turned off Office Reminders in Entourage and quit the app. I copied the Office 2008 Identities folder from my backup to the new HD. Opened Entourage, everything looked just as before. In Entourage Preferences > Sync Services, I enabled the settings which sync my contacts and Entourage Notes with Address Book and MobileMe (I do not sync calendars, as you do). Everything seems back to normal. I don't understand why you are thinking of moving your existing Address Book and iCal apps from 10.4.11 to 10.6.x. Snow Leopard has newer versions of those apps - replacing them with older versions will probably cause huge problems. Perhaps what you mean is that you want to migrate the data files from your old installations. This might be possible by using the import capabilities of the newer app versions. But if you will be syncing with Entourage, why not let Entourage set all the data in Address Book and iCal, when the first sync is done? > 5) I'm OK with MS Office 2004. Is there any advantage to my switching to > Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition? I did not notice any huge improvements or enhancements in Entourage when I migrated from Office 2004 to 2008. There are a few cosmetic changes, and a new companion organizer app (My Day) which I do not use. The main reason I upgraded was to get some specific improvements in Excel. I often need to save tab-delimited text files out of Excel, and doing this in the 2004 edition is needlessly complicated. Two things to watch out for if you move to Office 2008. The UI in Word is significantly changed - you may or may not like the changes. And MS dropped VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) from Office 2008. If your workflow uses VBA macros, you will probably want to stick with 2004. The next major version of Office will restore VBA, and MS recently announced that they will support Office 2004 until 2012. -- Julian Vrieslander <[email protected]> -- YouTalk mailing list List address: [email protected] List information: http://entourage.mvps.org/support_options/list.html List moderator: [email protected], [email protected] To unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
