How to Import Your Outlook Contacts into the Mac OS X Mail Address Book

It may not be every day that you learn lists of words under water; but if you do, you'll more easily recall the words under water.
Recall depends on context, Alan Baddeley has shown with divers (learning word lists) in the 1970s. This is good to know: place — or imagine! — yourself in the situation in which you need to recall what you learn and you will more readily have your memories available when and where you need them.
Now, address books suffer from severe context dependency, of course. Mac OS X Mail cannot easily recall the contacts you added to Outlook. Neither Outlook nor you need imagine the OS X Address Book, though; all it takes is some clever migration and importing:
›› The OS X Address Book application can import Outlook contacts for use in Mac OS X Mail.