Teach Yourself VISUALLY™ Outlook® 2007

Export Contacts

In addition to importing contacts into Outlook, you can export your Outlook contacts. The exported contacts file can then be imported by another contacts-management program.

When you export contacts, you typically do so as a CSV (short for comma-separated values) file, a generic file format used for exporting and importing information to and from databases, spreadsheets, and contacts-management programs.

Export Contacts

1.	If Contacts is not currently open, click the Contacts button in the navigation pane. Outlook switches to Contacts.
2.	Click File.
3.	Click Import and Export. The Import and Export Wizard starts.
4.	Click Export to a File.
5.	Click Next. [View full size image] The wizard’s Export to a File page opens.
6.	Click Comma Separated Values (Windows).
7.	Click Next.
8.	Click the folder containing the contacts you want to export. In this example, Contacts is selected.
9.	Click Next.
10.	In the next Export to a File page, click Browse to indicate where the export file should be saved. [View full size image] The Browse dialog box appears.
11.	Locate and open ...