email address lists from disc to Outllook 2002

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Another problem caused by having to change hard drive. I saved all my email
addresses and now have them on disc as .rtf files. How do I get them all
back into my Outlook 2002 address book?
 
Louise said:
Another problem caused by having to change hard drive. I saved all my
email
addresses and now have them on disc as .rtf files.
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Why? Who told you to do that?
How do I get them all
back into my Outlook 2002 address book?
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Are you saying that you have one rtf file for EACH address?
 
hmm from you response I am guessing clearly that was the wrong thing to do
BUT the whole thing died so it was a last ditch effort.

Yes I have each list of email addresses on .rtf and I have a horrible
feeling you are going to tell me to print it out and type them all back
in..........
 
Louise said:
hmm from you response I am guessing clearly that was the wrong thing to do
BUT the whole thing died so it was a last ditch effort.

Yes I have each list of email addresses on .rtf and I have a horrible
feeling you are going to tell me to print it out and type them all back
in..........
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Firstly, I'm interested as to how you actually exported Contacts to rtf
format - certainly outlook 2007 has no option to export to rtf format...
 
well in trying to recreate it I think I just went to the list in address book
and saved and .rtf was an option. Not the worst as it happens because i can
still cut and paste them back but had hoped to just save to disc and then
get them back to the address book when needed.
 
Louise said:
well in trying to recreate it I think I just went to the list in address
book
and saved and .rtf was an option. Not the worst as it happens because i
can
still cut and paste them back but had hoped to just save to disc and then
get them back to the address book when needed.
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Interesting! Outlook 2007 only gives a text option to "save as"..might be a
longish work around...open the rtf file in Word - do a "Save As" as a plain
text file - open that in Excel, format it and save as a CSV file. Then you
should be able to import that into Outlook. (Depends on how many contacts
you have....)
 
Gordon said:
Interesting! Outlook 2007 only gives a text option to "save as"..might be a
longish work around...open the rtf file in Word - do a "Save As" as a plain
text file - open that in Excel, format it and save as a CSV file. Then you
should be able to import that into Outlook. (Depends on how many contacts
you have....)
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Thanks for that, I just had a chance to try it. It works, after a fashion.
All info is now in contacts but I need to finesse it a bit. I will keep
trying as it does not seem to be usable as is. I am certainly closer than I
was before in trying to resolving this.
Susan
 
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