Perfect Ways to Convert Outlook Contacts to Excel 2013/2016

Microsoft Outlook is a widely used email client application around the globe. The Outlook contacts are a much important asset for a user and they even make our Outlook experience better. It is necessary for users to keep them up to date, maintained, and away from any corruption issues. Due to many reasons, users want to convert Outlook contacts to Excel. For example – if a user needs to maintain a well-described sheet for future use then it becomes a need for users to convert Outlook contact group to Excel. In this blog, we are going to provide the complete manual steps which will help Outlook export contacts to Excel.

How to Convert Outlook Contacts to Excel?

Here we have provided the step by step process to export Outlook to Excel CSV format. Follow the given steps below – 

1. Launch Microsoft Outlook on your system.
2. Click on the File tab.
3. Select Open & Export.
4. Click on the Import and Export option.
5. Select Import to a file option in the Import/Export wizard.
6. Hit the Next button.
7. Expand the Outlook mailbox and select the contacts and hit Next.
8. Now browse to select the location to save the resultant file.
9. Check on the Export “contacts” from folder: Contacts and then click on the finish button.

Note: Users can use the Map Custom Fields button to define the specific items in contacts, users want to export.

10. Wait till the exporting process gets completed.

You have now successfully exported all the contacts from Outlook to Excel. These above are the manual steps to convert Outlook contacts to Excel.

Also Read – Import OST Files to Mozilla Thunderbird

How to Convert Contacts From Corrupt Outlook PST Files?

While performing the process of exporting, if the user is unable to access the contacts from any specific PST file then this could be due to the corruption issues in the PST file. To fix this issue, users need to repair the corrupt PST file. You can try the advanced DRS PST Recovery tool which is able to repair the entire Outlook mailbox data and move to a healthy PST, EML, MSG, MBOX, ICS, HTML, DBX, etc. The utility offers several amazing features as well which will help with effortless recovery of the Outlook data.

Salient Features

• Recovers the entire mailbox data and exports the recovered PST files to a healthy PST, EML, MBOX, MSG, VCF, ICS, HTML, etc.
• Smooth user-friendly GUI.
• Scanned PST items can be viewed in a tree structure for a better experience.
• Easily recovers the Outlook database items such as contacts, emails, calendars, appointments, etc.
• Offers three recovery modes i.e, Standard, Advanced, and Deep.
• Compatible with all the versions of Outlook and Windows OS.
• No file size limitations on the PST file.
• Maintains the hierarchy and structure of the folder.
• Also, there is a free demo version available to evaluate the performance of the software for free.

Wrapping Up

In this blog, we have discussed the steps to convert Outlook contacts to Excel. We have provided the manual steps to convert Outlook contact group to Excel, however, the process of exporting is quite time-consuming and tedious. If users have any corruption issues in their Outlook PST file, then we would recommend to use the automated solution for an easy and quick recovery and conversion of recovered PST files to CSV and also to other file formats as per the requirement.

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