How to import your email contacts using Outlook Express

Except for the fact that different email clients use different menu entries to accomplish the same thing, this method for importing your email contacts can be used in the majority of email clients. A Internet tutorial by butterscotch.com.

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I'll today sure you have import
address book and there are certain basic
principles
while email clients may vary almost
without exception they all support wat
import export address books
often even messages well by the same
token
while email hi it's me various files
they support
almost without exception email client
support
file format called CES the text file
which means comma-separated values so
wants you exported your address book
into a CSV file
ready to import into another program for
this example
use express so
click File import
now we're going to select
other address because ours is in outlook
dialogue comes up
see there's support for number format
here at the bottom text file
comma-separated
say import programs ask yes
workers are filed we want to import
slick
open click Next here when importing
yes most of it have a chance to map
the different fields that are being
imported to the
program imported to so you're see
name matches email address and so on
some cases they want match you may want
to
on select a couple things don't want to
be imported
have tweaked the way you want click
Finish
program imported the address book
successfully
click OK click dollars to it