Outlook Client: Contacts to Export from Outlook

Introduction

Outlook has an Import/Export wizard that makes it easy to export your Outlook contacts to a CSV file. You can then use this file to import your contacts to another email account.

Note: These instructions are to only export Outlook contacts.

Instructions

1. Choose File in Outlook on a PC.
   
2. Choose Open & Export > Import/Export.
   
3. Choose Export to a file and click Next
   
4. Choose Comma Separated Values.
5. In the Select folder to export from box, scroll and select the Contacts folder that's under your account and click Next.
   
6. Choose Browse, name your file, and choose OK.
   
7. Confirm where your new contacts file will be saved on your computer, and choose Next.
8. Choose Finish to start exporting your contacts immediately.
   • Note: Outlook doesn't display any message when the export process is complete but the Import and Export Progress box goes away.
     
9. Locate the new .csv file on your computer and open it with Excel to verify your contacts are there.
   • Note: You'll likely have a lot of empty cells. That's normal.
10. Generally we recommend closing the file without saving any changes; otherwise the file might get messed up and you won't be able to use it for importing. If that happens you can always run the export process again and create a new file.
    
11. If needed, you can use Excel to update the information in your .csv file
12. Now that your contacts are copied to a .csv file, you can import your contacts to another computer with Outlook for Windows on it, or import them to another email service.