There can be several reasons for importing & exporting contacts to Outlook like importing/exporting old contacts, migrating to another application, saving all contacts in one place, etc. Whatever your reason, Outlook provides a simple way to import & export all contacts.
In today’s post, we will know how one can easily import and export thousands of contacts from Outlook.
Free methods to Import contacts to Outlook and Export contacts to PST file
Microsoft provides Import/Export feature by which users can easily import contacts to MS Outlook and can export contacts from Outlook to VCF or CSV file format.
Steps to import VCF contacts to Outlook
- Open Outlook on your computer and hit the email message with VCF file attachments.
- Right-click on vCard file that you want to open in Outlook and choose ‘Add’
- A new window will open with contact information. Click on the save and close button.
Now, repeat steps 2 & 3 for importing other vCard files to Outlook.
Steps to export MS Outlook contacts in VCF file format
- Go to the Contacts folder in Outlook.
- Click the Message Save Outlook toolbar button.
- Hit save all messages in the folder contacts
- Select the file format. If you don’t find this button, hit More and then choose file format
- Pick vCard in the file format and hit OK.
- Hit the Save Now button.
- Now, you can see contacts in VCF files.
Instant Solution to Bulk Export and Import contacts to MS Outlook
You can see that the manual solution is quite lengthy and time-taking thus a lot of users look for an alternate solution. So, we hereby offer you one such third-party solution i.e. vCard Export Import Software. This is a smart tool to perform both tasks i.e. exporting contacts from Outlook PST to VCF file format. Also, it can import VCF files to a new PST file or to an existing Outlook PST file.
Within a few clicks, the program allows the swift transfer of contacts without any hassles. You don’t even depend on Microsoft Outlook for importing & exporting contacts. This software can easily import multiple VCF files to PST file format with it. Also, you can export any number of contacts from Outlook file to VCF file format by this application.
It has only 4-5 simple steps to Import & Export Outlook contacts. Let us explore the complete process:
- Run the software on any Windows system.
- Now, choose the Import or Export option.
- In the case of Export, choose PST file from which you want to export contacts. For Import option, add VCF files.
- Set a path to save the resultant VCF files. In case of Import, set the location to save PST file.
- Press the Import or Export option.
In a few minutes, you can check the resultant file.
Conclusion
We assume that after reading this post, you have got solutions to export and import Outlook contacts. For this, you can check out the manual ways and if you find them inappropriate, then go for the third-party software which smartly performs the contacts import/export task in Outlook. This is an amazing solution that effortlessly performs dual tasks.
