Highrise imports contacts from Outlook and ACT but not Excel. But there's a way around this: You can save Excel spreadsheets as CSV files (or get a CSV file from another unsupported source) and use CSV2vCard to make vCards, which Highrise accepts.
At Importing from Excel [Highrise Customer Forum], Jeremy C. posted a link to CSV2vCard:
PC users and Mac users both have a better way than going through Outlook or Address book:There’s a free, generic CSV to vcard conversion tool here: CSV2vCard
This tool allows you to map your contact categories to a bulk vcard fields, which HR happily accepts…you can even map random variables to “notes”. The only issue you’ll have is that for some reason it replaces commas with a &/ combo.
Thanks for the tip Jeremy.
Related: Highrise Help: Import/Export
