Transferring files from Address Book to Outlook for Mac 2011

I know that this topic has been addressed, but I have a strange problem with what should be a straightforward process.
Whenever I highlight all the entries in Address Book and drag them to an empty folder on my desktop, Address Book creates a single file titled, "vCards.vcf." This file is quite large, which leads me to suspect that it somehow contains all the names in my Address Book, but nothing I have tried - or read - has given me the slightest clue how to use this file to move the names over to Outlook. Likewise, nothing I have tried has been successful.
In the past, whenever I highlighted all the names in Address Book and dragged them to a folder on my desktop, a vCard for each name appeared in the folder, so this development has really surprised me.
Any idea as to what I am doing wrong?

The single file does indeed contain all of the vCards in one file.
I don't know about Outlook '11, but all the Windows versions of Outlook cannot handle a multi-contact vCard. I would imagine Outlook '11 to be the same.
It's been creating multiple vCards for a while (perhaps just since Snow Leopard, but I can't remember).
Entourage has been able to sync with the Address Book for quite some time. Try looking in the Outlook prefs for that option.

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