Exchange contacts & windows address book

[NickE]

Hi,

I have contacts in Vista address book and separately my contacts held on an
exchange server which are linked to my email account.

These originally started out as the same list but are now out of sync. Is
there an easy way in Vista/Outlook to compare my exchange contacts to the
Vista Address book? Or any utilities which would enable me to do this?

Thanks
Nick

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

You mean the Windows Contacts program? What version of Outlook do you use?
I know of no program that can compare the two. How did you get the Contacts
into the Windows Contacts to begin with?

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[NickE]

Hi, yes the windows contacts program (previously I think it was called the
Windows Address book).

I can't remember to be honest how I got the contacts onto the two different
lists at the beginning.

Version of outlook is 2007.

Thanks
Nick

You mean the Windows Contacts program? What version of Outlook do you use?
I know of no program that can compare the two. How did you get the Contacts
into the Windows Contacts to begin with?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
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Hi,

I have contacts in Vista address book and separately my contacts held on
an
exchange server which are linked to my email account.

These originally started out as the same list but are now out of sync. Is
there an easy way in Vista/Outlook to compare my exchange contacts to the
Vista Address book? Or any utilities which would enable me to do this?

Thanks
Nick

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Hi, yes the windows contacts program (previously I think it was called the
Windows Address book).

I can't remember to be honest how I got the contacts onto the two different
lists at the beginning.

Version of outlook is 2007.

Export the Windows Contacts as a csv. Export Outlook's Contacts folder as a
CSV. Compare the two with whatever tool can compare two CSV files. Visual
inspection in Excel might be sufficient.

 

[NickE]

Excellent thanks.

I'll follow your suggestion to compare the two.

I don't currently use a text comparison tool but I'm sure there are plenty
out there. If I want to do this as a one off then I'll use concatenate and
vlookups in Excel to do the comparison.

Thanks
Nick

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Excellent thanks.

I'll follow your suggestion to compare the two.

I don't currently use a text comparison tool but I'm sure there are plenty
out there. If I want to do this as a one off then I'll use concatenate and
vlookups in Excel to do the comparison.

Well, there's always the FC command available in the command prompt window.
You may have to edit each CSV to make sure the columns are in the same order.
You can help that by mapping the fields in the same order when exporting them
and exporting only those columns that both main programs have in common. The
column headers may not agree in wording, either, so the comparison may best
work if the column headers are removed prior to comparison.