Exporting Only a Portion of my Contacts

[Guest]

Outlook 2002-2003. I want to export my contacts so that others may import
them. However, I only want to export a portion (and hence only have a
portion imported by others). Is there a way to specify "categories" that I
want exported? Each of my contacts has a category specified in their record.
I only want to export certain categories (which will not include my
"personal" category). Thanks for the help.

Incidently, if there is a way to do this programmatically (VBA for Outlook),
I would be happy to know that as well.

 

[Guest]

You cannot automate the Import/Export wizard. You would have to write code
to loop through the desired messages in the desired folders and copy them to
another .pst file.

The Import/Export wizard allows you to specify filters for the export,
including Contacts that pertain to specific categories (amongst other
criteria that you can define). Whatever is created in the .pst file that
your data is exported to (with or without filters) can likewise be filtered
when you choose to import from it.