for past month or so, I have been migrating apps, files, etc from our Dell PC (running XP) to our new PowerBook... had a time of it with Excel spreadsheet that had a macro partially due to:
- not knowing about Mac pathname convention with the colons - "Macintosh HD:users:brewskij:documents:foldername") required in Office X macros
- different format and output file type produced by Quicken for Mac versus Quicken for Windows (requires me to do an additional step of reading into Excel and output to a CSV format file)
also, importing mail from Outlook 2003 to Entourage:
- to keep attachments in tact required me to go from Outlook 2003 to Outlook Express, and then into Mozilla, and then renaming (adding mbox filename extension) and copying the resulting mailboxes to the PowerBook, and then dragging/dropping them into Entourage
had no problems importing contacts (output vcards from Outlook into a email message, saved them to a folder, copied them to the PowerBook, and dragged/dropped them into Entourage address area)
took some Google'ing, searching way_kewl forums like this one, etc... have learned tons in the process since Macs and OS/X is all new to me (and I am loving my PowerBook!!)...
at any rate, wanted to post this in case there are others having the same challenges,
BrewSkij
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