Hi,

I want to export my Outlook 2003 contacts to my new Vista laptop, wch only
runs Windows Mail (Vista Contacts). I tried the csv files, but the import
function does not recognize it properly (it sees all the headlines as one
field) (surprisingly, it works welle with Thunderbird, but my telephone sync
tool does not recognize Thunderbird...).
Is there any better way than using csv?

Windows Contacts might allow for vCard import.

"Olivier" discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Thanks. In Outlook 2003, how do you export all vCards at once (I have about
1300 contacts)?
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Olivier

"Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Olivier discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

Outlook 2003 can't do that, but there are third-party tools that will. See
this, for example: http://vsync.4team.biz/

OK, but I only have to do that once, for exporting from Outlook to Vista
Contacts. I will not buy third-party sync tool for only one export. Any other
idea?
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Olivier

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

"Olivier" discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Presumably you have Outlook Express on your old machine? Import to your
Outlook Express Addressbook, copy that across, and I believe that Windows
Mail will import a WAB....

Olivier discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

Doing them one at a time is all I can conceive, if export/import won't work.

Still have to use CSV as the intermediary for that, however. You cannot
export or import Contacts directly from Outlook to OE.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Gordon" gmail.com.invalid> wrote in message
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Focusing in on a key element of this problem where you wrote "it sees all
the headlines as one field"

Do you in fact have a properly constructed CSV file (if in North America -
each field name would be separated by a comma - else it would be separated
by the list separator character as defined in your regional settings
depending on what country your in)? You don't have a tab-delimited file do
you by any chance?

Since I don't use Vista or Vista WebMail on a day to day basis decided to
test a CSV import using a CSV file created by an Outlook export on our Vista
test system for my own curiousity and it worked just as advertised. When all
the fields in a header row are seen as a single field, usually means that
the file is not constructed as expected or it is constructed using a
separator character which differs from what the (importing) system is
expecting. Would be totally amazed if something as fundamental as a CSV
import did not work without there being some underlying cause related to the
data itself.

Just a thought given that the other responses seem to accept the premise
that the problem is that the import function doesn't correctly recognize a
CSV file.

if csv fails, you'll need to do it one at a time or try address magic
http://www.slipstick.com/config/convaddr.htm

you can try to fix the CSV by opening it in Excel and saving as comma
delimited csv.

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