How to output something that's suited for re-import in Outlook
havard...@gmail.com
She wants to store her contacts in a more permanent manner than the NK2
file is. She wants to export it to some temporary format, and then
slurp it back into her Outlook Contacts.
This represents a challenge:
1. Ideally, we should be able to create a big file (.vcf) containing a
vCard record for all contacts, and then point Outlook at that file.
Alas, support for vCard has not been at the top of the list for the
Outlook code monkeys, so it only supports reading one record per file.
Creating one vcf file for every record is not an option.
2. We could also export to a colon- or tab-separated table and then go
from there. But that opens the door to encoding issues as well as
problems with Outlook not being able to split at the correct delimiter.
For a big, heterogenous list of contacts this gets too messy and is not
an option either.
Looking through search engines, this looks like a challenge with no
easy solution. Suggested methods include:
- importing tab-separated tables into excel and then import from excel
to Outlook
- importing vCards into Outlook Express / Windows Address book and
then import that one to Outlook.
But I'm looking for the perfect solution that does not require third
party apps or going through hoops like that. Any ideas?
Thanks!
Håvard
Bug ticket: http://code.google.com/p/debunk2/issues/detail?id=2&can=2&q=