Entourage 2008 migration

I just bought a new MacBook Pro and am moving from a PowerBook G4 using Office X. I've been using Entourage (version 10.1.6) for years and would like to have access to old emails on my new MacBook Pro. I've purchased Office 2008 and was wondering if anyone here knows how to get emails from the old PPC version into the new Entourage on my Intel MacBook. Thanks in advance!

I'm glad it did import. We've had several users that it simply refused to import an Entourage X Identity. BTW, using category colors is never remembered. It's one of the little hidden gems that you can use. Speaking of hidden gems, be sure to enable in the Entourage Address Book the First Name, Last Name columns and get rid of the old Name column. Finally real sorting.
http://www.entourage.mvps.org/ngviews/columnview.html
See this image to get acquainted with the new Entourage 2008 window.
http://www.entourage.mvps.org/2008/main_window.html
When you clicked to resolve, this did not delete the older Microsoft fonts. I suggest that you remove those. Users have reported they were activated again.
This shouldn't be a problem for you since you moved to a new computer and didn't install Office X, but older versions of Office install the Microsoft fonts in the User's Library/Fonts folder. Anyone with older fonts here should delete them.
BTW, Office can run without any of it's installed fonts. A few of it's menus might look a bit funky, but it's ok to remove all if you want to test.

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