Help transferring from Outlook to Address Book

My husband is working on a Mac in a PC office. Outlook addresses are stored on a network. Not on his computer. He's trying to import the addresses into Apple's Address Book. Apparently he can't export the addresses since they are on the server. He thinks he needs to export from Outlook, then import with Address Book. Any Window's people out there have any idea how to fix this issue?
Thanks

Have someone else in the office who is using Windows Outlook select "Contacts" in Outlook.
At the menu bar, go to Edit and Select All to select/highlight all contacts (shouldn't matter if the contacts are stored on the server or locally) and at the menu bar, go to Actions and select Forward as vCard.
This will open a new message with each contact added as separate vCard attachment to the message.
Send the message to an email account that your husband accesses on the Mac.
Save the vCard attachments to a folder created on the Desktop or the location of choice and use the Address Book import feature selecting vCards as the import type.

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Importing contacts
Address Book can import contact information that you save or export from other applications in vCard, LDIF, tab-delimited, and comma-separated (CSV) formats.
You can export addresses in LDIF format from Netscape, and vCards from Palm Desktop, Entourage, Outlook, and others. You can export text files in tab-delimited or CSV format from most databases.
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When exporting tab-delimited or CSV files, you may want to note the order of the information fields. If the file doesn’t contain labels, you can refer to your notes to manually identify the fields in a later step.
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