i have been trying for a day to move my contacts from Outlook 2013/Windows to Outlook 2011/Mac.

this should not be hard ?!?!? same product, same vendor, simple flat files.

i tried export / import with a pst file.  it seems to import but just puts an inoperable pst folder within the outlook tree - no contacts loaded, file just sits there.

then i tried the CSV method - - exported from windows - checked the file (yup, all there) - - loaded up import on Mac, mapped all the fields...ran the import...super....EXCEPT - every single field is bounded by parentheses, rendering the content completely useless.  checked some old forums and this seems to be a couple of years old problem...but could not find any post that actually solved it. i can't go into every field of 1,000 contacts and manually delete all the debris.  SURELY this has been solved ???  anyone have the magic code?

[on a side note - so far, my purchase of Office 365 subscription has been a complete waste....can't do much on the mac, and i can't use the ipad version unless i move 4GB of data from dropbox to OneDrive.]