Having trouble Importing contacts from microsoft outlook.

Those addresses are vcards. Try selecting that check box.

Oh, I just read that you are trying to get them off a PC. Sorry I missed that. Can you try an export from Outlook, first, maybe to a folder?
http://email.about.com/od/macosxmailtips/qt/etimport_olc.htm

The link explains the process. Microsoft is never going to make this easy.

I am having the same problem. I decided to import my Outlook Contacts data into Apple Numbers, edit it there and then export it to a text/CSV file. Tried to import my CSV file to Contacts, everything looked good, and I was able to view my data to be imported. When I click OK, absolutely nothing happens. When I scroll through the contacts that are to be imported, if I go past the 50th one, Contacts freezes up. The reponses to this question so far (as of 12/30) are not helpful. Thank you.

Ok, may I suggest two paths

First path: from Outlook on your PC, select all your contacts then go to Action>forward as vcard. That I think will generate an email with all the incividual vcards attached. Just send that email to yourself and receive/open it on your mac, the drag and drop the vcards in Address Book.

Second path: download and install Thunderbird on your pc if you don't have it yet, then launch it and choose to import from outlook your address book contacts, just follow the instructions. Once imported in thunderbird, then choose to export, export as LDIF, name the file, then bring that file to your mac. Then in Address Book go to file>import>LDIF... and you should be done.

hope this helps

I downloaded the trial version of Bento, which is a type of database software, and was able to import my MS Outlook contacts (which I had already imported into Numbers and then exported to a text file) into Bento, which automatically updates Address Book. I wanted to check out Bento for another project I am working on, and was pleasantly surprised that I was able to update Address Book. Anyway, something seems to be wrong with the Address Book application. It shouldn't be so hard to import a simple text file.

I just exported 3 years worth of email, contacts and calendar info from Outlook and imported into Mail using O2M from littlemachines.com. I downloaded a trial version (exports 5 records) and after a smooth test run, spent $10 on the full version. It went smoothly and took about half an hour.

I was also struggling to transfer my contacts from Outlook on PC to Mac address book. I used Thunderbird, exactly as described above and it worked perfectly. And it was free. Thanks and good luck.

+> I just exported 3 years worth of email, contacts and calendar info from Outlook and imported into Mail using O2M from littlemachines.com.+

Seconded -- I moved 8 years worth of Outlook data to Entourage this way, and swear by that little piece of software. Worth every penny.

(A friend used the Thunderbird route; it worked, but took him days.)

I just moved 834 contacts using Thunderbird. It took about 15 minutes for Thunderbird to import the data from Outlook, then about 15 seconds for the Mac to import the file. Beautiful.