I have currently burnt my contacts from my laptop onto a CD and am now trying to get them imported into my Home computer - Outlook 2002.
I did save the file as a .pst and am now strubbling with the rest of the process...does anyone have any suggestins for a "newbie"?

henner

"John Henley" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have currently burnt my contacts from my laptop onto a CD and am now
>trying to get them imported into my Home computer - Outlook 2002.
> I did save the file as a .pst and am now strubbling with the rest of the
> process...does anyone have any suggestins for a "newbie"?
>


Don't import.
Copy the file to your HDD. Do NOT overwrite any existing pst file. Remove
any read-only attribute. Open Outlook, do File-Open-Outlook Data File.
Navigate to where you copied the file to. Then copy your contacts to the new
file, or, set the old file to be your default delivery location. (Control
Panel-Mail-Data Files)

HTH

Copy the file to your PC, eg Documents folder, in Explorer locate the file,
select Properties & turn off the read only flag
Within OL, File>Open>Data File.........browse to this file
Copy from this to your Contacts

"John Henley" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have currently burnt my contacts from my laptop onto a CD and am now
>trying to get them imported into my Home computer - Outlook 2002.
> I did save the file as a .pst and am now strubbling with the rest of the
> process...does anyone have any suggestins for a "newbie"?
>
> henner
>

Thanks for your help.

I have already deleted my information from laptop. I have the information on a cd and it is as a read only, is there anyway to remove that as when I try to, error says access is denied
D:/contacts.TXT

My guess is the only way is to manually put them into outlook now.

If you have any other suggestions it would be appreciated.

Thanks,
John (henner)

"John Henley" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Thanks for your help.
>
> I have already deleted my information from laptop. I have the information
> on a cd and it is as a read only, is there anyway to remove that as when I
> try to, error says access is denied
> D:/contacts.TXT
>



Why are your contacts in a TEXT file?
The best way to proceed is this.
Create one new contact in Outlook. Export that to a csv file.
Open your file contacts.txt in Excel. Make sure that the fields match the
format in your exported csv file.
Save the Excel file as a csv type on your HDD.
In Outlook, import that saved csv file.

HTH

John,
Copy/Paste the Contacts.txt file to your Desktop> Right click the file>
Select Properties> Uncheck "Read-Only" attribute box. Close file. Now you
should be able to edit file.

You can now open the file in a spread sheet program, create a header row,
then move data around in the appropriate cells. Then save the file as a
Comma Separated Value (*.CSV) file. That can be imported into Outlook. Make
sure that you select Map Fields button, and make the changes there, so the
data can be imported to the right place.


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"John Henley" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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Thanks for your help.

I have already deleted my information from laptop. I have the information on
a cd and it is as a read only, is there anyway to remove that as when I try
to, error says access is denied
D:/contacts.TXT

My guess is the only way is to manually put them into outlook now.

If you have any other suggestions it would be appreciated.

Thanks,
John (henner)