How can I transfer Outlook Express emails and Microsoft Word documents from a PC to an iMac?

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Word is easy, email is a little more difficult (but not too bad! ) Outlook Express stores its files in a . Dbx format, which isn't recognised by Mac mail applications like Apple Mail or Entourage (which is part of Office:Mac).

You need to convert them from . Dbx to something else. You can use the free application dbxconv to convert them to .

Mbx files on your Windows computer. Transfer the . Mbx files to your Mac.

Change their file extension from . Mbx to .mbox. Then, you can import the .

Mbox files into the mail client that you want to use on your Mac and then import them into the mail application that you want to use. If you want to import your mail into Entourage, all you have to do is drag the . Mbox folders into the folder list in Entourage.

For your Word files, if they are all . Doc files from Office 2003 or earlier, then all that you need to do is copy them over to your new Mac. Office:Mac will happily open them.

If you're using Office 2007 on your Windows computer and have saved files in . Docx, you can use the free file format converter from Microsoft so that Office:Mac can open them.

Long process Transferring files between the two is not very difficult, but converting the email formats can be a big pain. Outlook Express uses a proprietary email format that no other program uses, not even regular Outlook that is part of Microsoft’s Office suite of software. If you are willing to spend a few bucks software like Emailchemy ($28) will really help speed up the process.

It can read the proprietary format of Outlook Express and export it to IMAP which is usable by Mac OS X Mail. Another option is to import your Outlook Express mail into Microsoft Outlook if you have it, then use Outlook2Mac ($10) to convert it from the Outlook format to a format that Mail can understand. Once you have converted the emails to a compatible format and transferred them to the new Mac, you can use this process to import them into Mail.

When you setup a new email account in Mail it will also ask if you’d like to import existing email accounts, so that will make it easier. Note that sometimes when I have done this with Outlook2Mac converted files especially, sometimes it doesn’t "take" the first time. It looks like it is importing all the messages but when it finishes they are not there.

I am not sure why this happens but it almost always worked when I tried it a second time. Your . Doc files will not need any conversion and can be transferred over to the Mac and opened in Word for Mac or Pages, part of the iWork package from Apple.

There are also free word processors available out there such as Bean, NeoOffice, and Abiword. In order to transfer the data from the PC to the Mac, there are lots of options. The easiest is to use a USB thumbdrive or external hard drive to transfer between the two.

Plug it in on the Windows computer, put the files on it, plug it in the Mac and transfer them over. If you have a home network setup you can enable Windows File Sharing under system preferences in OS X and transfer them over the network. Here are some tips on transferring data between the two.

-------------------- All of that being said, if you recently purchased your mac (last 2 weeks) and purchased it from the Apple Retail Store, they offer a free service to move all of your data over to the Mac for you. You’d be responsible for converting the email from Outlook Express to Outlook (unless they are feeling generous) but they could handle the rest of it for you. They also offer that service as a stand-alone product that I believe is $50 for data transfer services.

They have the tools the pull out the hard drive of your Windows computer and hook it up to the Mac for transfer, which makes it a lot easier. Sources: 2 years of experience pulling my hair out as a Mac Genius in an Apple Store Derek(SA)'s Recommendations Detto Move2Mac USB Amazon List Price: $49.95 Used from: $39.98 Average Customer Rating: 2.5 out of 5 (based on 11 reviews) Move2Mac This software can help with the moving process but will not convert all of your emails. Also it is almost as much as just having a Mac Genius do it for you, so not really worth it.

O2M for Express, just copy Word files (1) Assuming you have Microsoft Word for the Mac, those files will open just fine. Transfer the files through the net, on a flash drive, or burn them to DVD. Whatever floats your boat.(2) There are free ways of moving Express mail to Mac OS X's "Mail.

App", but it is much simpler (well worth the $10 IMHO) to just buy O2M which does it automatically. Sources: littlemachines.com/ .

1 Ah, Nadyne that was the software I was trying to remember. Couldn't remember the name of it, haven't had to use it in a while. :) DBXConv can save you the step of converting from Outlook Express to Outlook, but it is kind of difficult to use as it is a DOS application.

Ah, Nadyne that was the software I was trying to remember. Couldn't remember the name of it, haven't had to use it in a while. :) DBXConv can save you the step of converting from Outlook Express to Outlook, but it is kind of difficult to use as it is a DOS application.

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