Importing Address Contacts in Mail Clients

MAC MAIL

1. Open the Address Book application

2. Choose "Import" from the File menu

3. Navigate to the file that you exported from your previous application and select it from the list of files (ex: contacts.csv). Tip: If you can not select the file, the Open button will not pulsate. This may indicate that the file is not in a format that the Address Book can read

4. Click Open. Address Book contacts will be populated.


OUTLOOK 2013


1. In Outlook, click File > Open & Export > Import/Export
    *This starts the Import and Export Wizard

2. Choose Import from another program or file and then click Next

3. Choose Comma Separated Values and click Next

4. Browse to the .csv file you want to import

5. Under Options, choose whether to replace duplicates (existing contacts), create duplicate contacts, or not import duplicates

6. Click Next and choose the destination folder for your contacts. Contacts should be selected by default, but if it's not, scroll up or down until you find it. You can also choose a different folder, or create a new one

7 . Click Next

8. Make sure the check box next to Import "file name" (e.g. contacts.csv) is selected

9. Don't click Finish yet, because you'll need to 'map' some of the columns in your CSV file to contact files in Outlook. Mapping can help the import contacts turn out just the way you want.

Mapping

1. Click Map Customer Fields button. The Map Customer Fields dialog box appears

2. You'll probably need to do some manual mappingOnce done, click Finish

3. Your contacts are now successfully imported into Outlook.


OUTLOOK EXPRESS

1. Start Outlook Express

2. From the File menu, select the Import submenu and choose, Other Address Book

3. After selecting Other Address Book, the Address Import Tool appears

4. From the Address Import Tool, select the application that contains the address book you wish to import into Outlook Express and click Import.  The Address Import Tool searches the selected application's address book and imports its content into Outlook Express.


5. On the Address Book Tool click Close


THUNDERBIRD

1. Start Thunderbird

2. Click Tools and select Address Book

3. On the Address Book, select Tools and then select Import.

4. Select the Address Books and click Next

5.
Select Text file (LDFI, .tab, .csv, .txt) and click Next; select the location of the file when prompted.

6.
Click Finished.


WINDOWS 8 MAIL

1. Visit http://people.live.com and login with the same Microsoft ID that you synced with the People App

2. Click on Manage on the top and click on Add people

3. Click on Import from a File

4. Browse and import the CSV file from the computer

*Note: It might take some time for the contacts to be updated in the People app in your computer


WINDOWS LIVE MAIL

1.
Open Windows Live Mail, and open you Contacts

2. Click on the Import ribbon button, and click on the Comma separated values (.CSV) option

3. Click on Browse

4. Browse to where you saved the exported .csv file on your device and click Open
 ***If you would like to add or remove any of the fields to be included when importing the contacts, then double click on any listed field and check (add) or uncheck (remove) the Import this field box, and click on OK

5. When finished, click on the Finish button

6. Your contacts have been imported into Windows Live Mail




WINDOWS MAIL V6.0

1.
Open Windows  Mail, and open you Contacts

2. Click on the Import, and click on the Comma separated values (.CSV) option

3. Click on Browse

4. Browse to where you saved the exported .csv file on your device and click Open
 ***If you would like to add or remove any of the fields to be included when importing the contacts, then double click on any listed field and check (add) or uncheck (remove) the Import this field box, and click on OK

5. When finished, click on the Finish button

6. Your contacts have been imported into Windows Mail