How to Export Outlook Contacts?

By: Systool Software

If you're thinking to move to a new employer, switch to a different email program, or you just want to share your contacts with others, you can export your contact list(s) simply and easily with the import/export wizard built into Microsoft Outlook. MS Outlook stores large part of emails, contacts, journals, tasks, notes etc in Personal Storage File (PST File). Exporting your contacts in format that can be read by all popular email programs.

Outlook's import/export wizard gives you a choice to select either a comma separated values (.csv) file or (.txt). Save the file and you're ready to import the file into the new program. There is another method of sharing contacts is with Vcard (.vcf) files. First we proceed we should know the actual meaning of Vcard – “What vCard is?�

What is vCard?

It is a standard file format to store contact information, usually business contact information such as company name, telephone and fax numbers, email and much more. Since this is a standard file format it can be read by several programs and applications like mobile phones, email clients (Outlook Express) etc.

The vCard format is an electronic business card that you can attach to any email message. vCard format can be used with a wide variety of digital devices (PDA, iPhone, iPod, Mobile Phones, Palm) and operating systems. You can only move one contact at a time from within Outlook, but with commercial software like “Systools vCard Export� you have the option to import or export your vCard contacts as multiple entries to Address Book of Novell, Linux, Macintosh operating systems with a few clicks.

Overview of Systools vCard Export

Systools Vcard Export v1.0 is easy to use Outlook Contact Conversion Tool with most attractive user interface that helps to export outlook contacts to vCard file easily and quickly. It allows you to export all your contacts within a folder, or you can choose to export just the ones you select. In addition, you can import multiple contacts from a single (vcf) file. This article will throw light on how to manually you can export your contacts from Microsoft Outlook.

To save your contacts from Outlook to vcf files you need to

• Select file, Choose default Outlook Contact and then click on scan Outlook Contacts.






• Software will start scanning the PST files or Microsoft Outlook contacts






• After scanning PST files , SysTools Vcard export displays all the contacts from Microsoft Outlook






• Systools Vcard export allows you to view all the contact information before saving it to VCF files.

Users can download SysTools Vcard Export software from the following link:
http://www.vcardexport.com/

About the Author

SysTools Software is a prime developer of Email Conversion & System Software utility to convert lotus notes database to any other email clients, to repair corrupt access database, to extract bkf files, to recover lost or forgotten passwords of Access database, to repair zip files and to export outlook contacts .

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