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How to get outlook contacts into address book??

Anonymous
2025-04-21T20:58:58+00:00

I have finally managed to import my Outlook contacts from my old computer to my new one, but I cannot find a way to move the contacts into my address book. Why do they make this process so difficult - and why is there no tutorial to explain how this is done? I have hundreds of contacts, so there is no way I am entering them into an address book one by one. There must be a way!!! Help!

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Anonymous
2025-04-22T22:20:37+00:00

I believe that you have to designate the Contact Folder where you imported all of the contacts as an Address Book.

Start with Step 4 of this Support doc.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-address-book-41d343c2-0508-45fe-b6f4-a0294bfe3da0#:~:text=It's%20probably%20best%20to%20place,mail%20Address%20Book%20is%20selected.

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-04-22T20:00:10+00:00

    Windows 11 on the new computer. Classic Outlook (although I have to change to that every blasted time I open the program, because it wants to shove the New Outlook down my throat).

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-04-22T19:53:10+00:00

    Yes, I imported the contacts and they show up in "Contacts", but not in the address book.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-04-22T17:58:43+00:00

    Dear customer,

    Good day! Thank you for posting to the Microsoft Community. We are glad to assist you.

    According to the description, may I know if you have imported the PST file to the Outlook yet? If so, when clicking on the address book, there shall be a tab named "Contacts", and we will find all our contacts over that place.

    We may wait for 24 hours to make sure the offline address book to fully synchronize.

    Best Regards,

    Serena - MSFT | Microsoft Community Support Specialist

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-04-22T06:37:06+00:00

    Any answer will be dependent on which version of Outlook you are using on the new computer.

    Please see this Microsoft Support article and reply with what platform (Windows, Mac, Android, etc.) and version of Outlook you are using.

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/what-version-of-outlook-do-i-have-b3a9568c-edb5-42b9-9825-d48d82b2257c

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