Microsoft Outlook is a very user-friendly application with many features for storing, updating and transferring your email contacts. Outlook contacts are stored in the Outlook Address Book with specific fields for the address details like email address, phone number, etc. You can update this file from time to time and transfer it to another system or webmail service when needed.
Transferring Outlook Contacts
The Outlook Address Book is stored in the Outlook folders you have in your system. From there, using the Import and Export feature in MS Outlook, you can transfer the files to another system or email client. If you are transferring the files to a new Outlook mail client, then you can use the Outlook Backup program to make this process easier.
The Outlook Backup program is designed to help you transfer all your settings, Outlook files, messages, contacts, etc to the new Outlook mail client. Using this program, you would not have to worry about losing any of your data when you are changing your system or upgrading your email client.
It is also possible to transfer the Outlook contacts and other data to a different webmail service or mail client – if it supports the same data format used in MS Outlook. You would find the Import and Export option in the File menu. Clicking on this option would launch the Import and Export wizard.
Select the Export option there and Comma separated values as the type of files that you want to transfer. From the list of folders shown, you need to select the Outlook Contacts folder. The wizard would now ask you to select the location where you want to store the new file.
Click on the Browse button to provide the storage location for the file and give a file name for newly created file. The wizard would now start copying all the Outlook Contacts in to this file and store in the location mentioned. This would be your Outlook Contacts backup or export file.
You need to copy this file to a disc or USB stick and connect it to your new system. Launch the new mail client or the webmail account that you are using and import this file to it. If the email client or the webmail service indeed supports this data format, it would recognise the Outlook Contacts and would ask you where to save it.
Thus, you would now have all your Outlook contacts in your new email client.
Transferring Outlook Contacts
The Outlook Address Book is stored in the Outlook folders you have in your system. From there, using the Import and Export feature in MS Outlook, you can transfer the files to another system or email client. If you are transferring the files to a new Outlook mail client, then you can use the Outlook Backup program to make this process easier.
The Outlook Backup program is designed to help you transfer all your settings, Outlook files, messages, contacts, etc to the new Outlook mail client. Using this program, you would not have to worry about losing any of your data when you are changing your system or upgrading your email client.
It is also possible to transfer the Outlook contacts and other data to a different webmail service or mail client – if it supports the same data format used in MS Outlook. You would find the Import and Export option in the File menu. Clicking on this option would launch the Import and Export wizard.
Select the Export option there and Comma separated values as the type of files that you want to transfer. From the list of folders shown, you need to select the Outlook Contacts folder. The wizard would now ask you to select the location where you want to store the new file.
Click on the Browse button to provide the storage location for the file and give a file name for newly created file. The wizard would now start copying all the Outlook Contacts in to this file and store in the location mentioned. This would be your Outlook Contacts backup or export file.
You need to copy this file to a disc or USB stick and connect it to your new system. Launch the new mail client or the webmail account that you are using and import this file to it. If the email client or the webmail service indeed supports this data format, it would recognise the Outlook Contacts and would ask you where to save it.
Thus, you would now have all your Outlook contacts in your new email client.
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