How do I export my contact file into Outlook

[kelly]

Hi,

I am trying to export my contact file (Wordpad) to my
address book in Outlook...does anyone know how to do this
and could walk me through it?

Thanks,

Kelly

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Explain what this "Contact File" really is and what format it is in.

 

[jj]

the easiest thing to do is to highlight one of the existing contacts &
export it into an excel file.

if you don't have one already, just make up one & it's best to put things
into where you want them
to end up in Outlook when you get your data in. So, for example, if they're
all business contacts, put
some dummy data in the business address, but don't put it into the
residential address.

then open up the excel, open up the file & see how it's arranged.

Then take the data from your word file & cut & paste it into Excel.

And then save it, get out of Excel, and Import that file into Outlook.

SOMETIMES... Outlook has a problem importing Excel files. If that's the
case, go back into Excel and save the file as a .csv file (Comma Delimited).
Then Import THAT file into Outlook.

But it's really easy & won't take very long at all.

-JJ