CONTACT TRANSFER FROM LAPTOP

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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
 
John Henley said:
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"?
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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
 
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 said:
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
Click to expand...



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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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)
 
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