Transfering contacts from Hotmail to Outlook???
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fluffy said:
Is there a simple way to transfer my conatcts from my hotmail account to Outlook. Have configured Outlook to retrieve mail from Hotmail.
How about sending yourself an e-mail from your Hotmail account with everyone as a CC? Then all the addresses should appear in OE and you can right click and select 'Add to address book'?
Father-in-law has the same issue, i have found the below but haven't got round to trying it yet.(let me know if it works before weekend as i try it then !!)
You can synchronize your address book to your Outlook Express but not to your Outlook application. You will need to complete the following steps to properly update your Outlook application:
Add your hotmail account to Outlook Express
Open up your Address Book, go to Tools> Synchronize Now (This initiates a two-way
synchronziation between your hotmail address book and your Outlook Express
address book.) Note: contacts in sub-folders will not synchronize to Outlook Express.
You will need to check your address book(s) for duplicate entries, and delete as
necessary.
Then complete the following to move the addresses from Outlook Express to Outlook:
In Outlook, you can use the Import and Export Wizard as the interface for Address
Book conversion. Use the following steps to convert a Windows Address Book (WAB)
file:
1. Start Outlook.
2. On the File menu, click "Import and Export".
3. Click "Import Internet Mail and Addresses", and then click Next.
4. Click Outlook Express 4.x, 5 from the list.
5. Select any combination of the Mail or Addresses from the items
listed.NOTE: With the exception of rules conversion from Outlook
Express, the steps to convert addresses are the same.
6. Click Next.
7. Select a destination for the imported address data.
8. Select the appropriate duplicate items option, and then click Finish.
You can synchronize your address book to your Outlook Express but not to your Outlook application. You will need to complete the following steps to properly update your Outlook application:
Add your hotmail account to Outlook Express
Open up your Address Book, go to Tools> Synchronize Now (This initiates a two-way
synchronziation between your hotmail address book and your Outlook Express
address book.) Note: contacts in sub-folders will not synchronize to Outlook Express.
You will need to check your address book(s) for duplicate entries, and delete as
necessary.
Then complete the following to move the addresses from Outlook Express to Outlook:
In Outlook, you can use the Import and Export Wizard as the interface for Address
Book conversion. Use the following steps to convert a Windows Address Book (WAB)
file:
1. Start Outlook.
2. On the File menu, click "Import and Export".
3. Click "Import Internet Mail and Addresses", and then click Next.
4. Click Outlook Express 4.x, 5 from the list.
5. Select any combination of the Mail or Addresses from the items
listed.NOTE: With the exception of rules conversion from Outlook
Express, the steps to convert addresses are the same.
6. Click Next.
7. Select a destination for the imported address data.
8. Select the appropriate duplicate items option, and then click Finish.
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