How To: Export Contacts From Outlook

by Melissa Smich on January 14, 2010

Switching email providers can sometimes seem like an utterly daunting task. From Outlook, its uber easy – all you have to do is export in to a clear and easy CSV file that’s then uploaded to your new email provider, like  mail2web.com. Here’s how its done.

The first step is to open Outlook, go to the File menu and choose the Import and Export option.

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Select the Export to a File action and press the Next button.

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Choose the Comma Separated Values (Windows) file type and press the Next button.

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Select your Contacts folder and press the Next button.

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Now click the Browse button and select the location and file name that you want the CSV to use. After you’ve named your file and area ready to continue, press the Next button.

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Press the Finish button to export the contact list to your CSV file.

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The CSV file is now saved to the location that you specified.

You can then upload your contacts to mail2web.com

Related posts:

  1. How To: Set Up Your Contacts In Outlook
  2. Importing and Exporting Contacts
  3. How To: Step By Step Guide To Set Up Remote Email Access
  4. Managing Your Email Contacts
  5. Outlook Plug-Ins: Contacts Management

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Candace21 February 16, 2010 at 4:47 PM

This is a really great tutorial, you should add it to all the “How To” sections on the forums, or even create a how to page with all the blog posts that fit in that section. Good resources get buried behind other posts all the time and it’s a real shame in the world of business blogging.

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FrankJ February 17, 2010 at 5:02 PM

I really hope that you include a link to this post in every welcome email that you send your customers because it is golden. I can’t even imagine trying to figure out how to do this on my own. I’d probably make my computer blow up.

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mynameisduf February 22, 2010 at 6:57 PM

So then you upload them to mail2web and can move them to your phone from there That is pretty cool and simple seeming Is it the same for every phone and operating system type or are the differences from one to another

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