【Import and Export Contacts in Outlook】Step by Step Guide ▷ 2022

To the the ability to transfer information is one of the most important points to consider, and when dealing with clients, it is essential to keep the list of contacts safe and always within reach.

For this purpose, offers the possibility of exporting the contact list to mobile devices through the applicationor even to other email services.

In order to get the most out of this function, we will teach you the required procedures step by step. to export and import the information of your Outlook contacts through any of the devices you have at hand.

Learn how to export contacts from your Outlook account

Apply this function in your does not require complex procedures, since it is easily accessible from the web portal, as well as from the mobile application for any operating system.

Let’s see:

to android

it is only possible export Outlook contacts to Android via your mobile email app. Once this is installed and configured, all you have to do is activate the function of “Synchronize contacts”.

Through the following procedure:

Start the Outlook app on your device android.

press About you profile picture.
Select the gear Icon, which you will see in the lower left corner.
Open the options of your email account, entering it from the first item.

Activate the option “Synchronize contacts”.

When starting this function, you will be able to view your Outlook contacts in the contacts application of your Android device, so you can access them quickly and easily regardless of your location.

to iOS

As it is the operating system of one of the best-selling mobile phone brands in the world, it is necessary to emphasize that the process to activate the synchronization of contacts from Outlook on your device iOS is a bit more complex than an operating system like Android would be.

The procedure consists of entering the account manually to the list of mobile accounts, to later activate the synchronization, through the following procedure:

enter to the application of “Settings” from your device iOS.
Enters in function “Mail”and click on “Accounts”.

Choose the option “Add Account”.

Select your email provider. In this case, depending on your account, you must select Outlook either “Exchange”.
Enter the credentials from your email accountmaking sure to include the corporate domain, if it has one.

press “Following” and wait for “Mail” verify your account.

Once you have added to the email account, all that remains to be done is to activate the synchronization with the email entered, through the following steps:

In the settings of your iOS mobileopen the application “Mail”.
enter to the section “Accounts”.

Choose the email account Outlook that you want to sync.
Activate the function labeled as “Contacts”.

By activating this function, all you have to do is go into your Contacts appafter which you can view your contacts Outlook arranged alphabetically.

To another email account

To migrate contact data from your Outlook account to a different email account, the first thing you need to do is export your contact information as a “.csv” file and download it, as follows:

enter to your email account outlook.
click in the contacts iconlocated in the left sidebar.

Being on the contact listyou must click on the date that you will see next to “Manage”, visible access in the upper bar, on the right side.
click in “Export contacts”.

In the list labeled as “Contacts in this folder” select the option “Contacts”.
Click on “Export”.
Wait for the file to download “contacts.csv” and save it to an accessible location on your computer.

From this file, you can load the contacts and import them into the destination email accountby means of a very similar procedure.

Find out how to import contacts to your Outlook account

Similar to when you want to export your email account data to another location, Outlook also serves as a highly reliable storage medium for contacts from your other email accounts and mobile devices. Depending on which device you are using, the procedures used to import contacts from other locations into your Outlook account vary widelyTherefore, we must take into account several procedures of different degrees of complexity.

Go for it:

From Android

To export contacts from your Android device to your Outlook email account, all you have to do is access the contact import/export function of your mobile’s native application.

All through the following steps:

Enter the contacts app from your device android.
open the options pressing the three dots icon located in the upper right corner.

Choose the option “Import/export contacts”.
choose storage where the contacts will be copied from.
Choose your outlook account as a destination for export.

Check the contacts you want to transferr. This process is done manually, so you must select each contact individually.
press on “To accept”.

From iOS

This procedure is possibly the most complex, as it requires the use of your iTunes account and desktop application to authorize the transfer of contact data from your mobile device to your Outlook account.

Here are the steps to follow:

connect your iPhone to your PC via USB.
wait till detect the device.
Opens “Information” in app itunes of your mobile.

check the box corresponding to Contact sync with Outlook.
select the contacts that you are going to export to your mail.
press in “To accept”.
Once the synchronization is complete, Disconnect your mobile from the computer safely.

Once you have completed the process, you will be able to verify that your contacts are correctly synchronized in your Outlook notebook. You can repeat the procedure as many times as necessary, and select the new contacts you want to synchronize.

From another email account

To be able to upload contacts from another Outlook email account, it is necessary that you have already done the process of exporting data to a “.csv” filewhich must be stored on your computer.

Importing the contacts only requires loading said file through a simple process, which is based on the following steps:

Enter the email account where the contacts will be imported.
Select the contacts icon, that you will see in the sidebar on the right side.
click in “Manage” to open the dropdown menu.

Choose the option “Import contacts”.
In the space labeled as “Upload CSV file”, click on the option “Review”.

Find the file “contacts.csv” in the folder where it was previously saved, select it and click “Open”.
Click on the button “To import”.

After uploading the file, Outlook will inform you that the contacts have been added successfully, specifying the number of contacts that have been loaded. When you review your contact list, you will be able to see the contacts added from the file.