How to import microsoft outlook address?

Exporting an AOL Address Book into Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express

• How can I take an Address List in AOL and email it to a friend that has Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express? My friend must be able to import the AOL Addresses into his Outlook or Outlook Express Contacts List, without having to individually type them in. Can this be at all done, since AOL is not a POP3 program? If it can be done, please provide a step-by-step procedure on how to do it.

• Answer:

  tom... The simplest way may be to go through the motions of composing an email and select everyone in your address book. Once they're in your To field, you can Select All and save them to a text file. Step-by-step instructions are given on this page from TechSpot: http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic2833.html Once you've converted it to a .csv file in Excel, you can email that as an attachment. Outlook Express and Outlook can both import .csv files into their address books. If you have Outlook or Outlook Express, yourself, with working email addresses, you can use the shortcut suggested by the post at the bottom of that page, and simply send an email to yourself (or him, for that matter), CCing everyone on your list. Then either you or he can select all the CC'd addresses and Add to Address Book. If you want to combine this with an email to everyone on your list, noting that you're giving their address to your friend, this could work fairly well. If not, it could be awkward. Maybe a blank email would be better. Finally, there are scripts you can use to extract the addresses. This page from the Online Traders Web Alliance board has a post with a list of links resulting from a suggestion in an earlier post, which is to simply search AOL for "AOL Export email address". http://www.otwa.com/community/showthread.php?t=20522 One of the first links resulting from that search is a Java class file you can download and run on the .pfc file you can export from your AOL address book, using the instructions on this page on AOLeave.com: http://www.aoleave.com/addbook.html Once again, you'll have a .csv file you can attach to an email and which your friend can import to either Outlook or OE. I don't have AOL (anymore) so I can't guarantee the absolute perfection I would usually prefer to be able to by testing every step myself, but there is no reason to doubt that the procedures I've referred you to should work, if you carefully follow all the steps. If you run into trouble along the way, just post a Clarification, and let me see if I can help. Please do not rate this answer until you are satisfied that the answer cannot be improved upon by way of a dialog established through the "Request for Clarification" process. sublime1-ga Additional information may be found from further exploration of the links provided above, as well as those resulting from the Google searches outlined below. Searches done, via Google: importing OR exporting "aol address" ://www.google.com/search?q=importing+OR+exporting+%22aol+address%22