I just had the same problem. Here's a solution I found on several web sites:

While in Outlook's contact list, change the view to "By Location"
(View-Current View-By Location). Now select one or more of the contacts
with USA in the "Country/Region" field and drag them to a contact with a
blank "Country/Region" field. The "Country/Region" will be changed to blank,
but the rest of the information will not be altered.

You have to use the "By Location" view - sorting them by the country field
in a different view won't work the same way!

Good luck,
Oscar

"mrkmstrtt" wrote:
I have a large number of contacts that i have to put into excel and a lot of
them show up with "united states of america" as the country - even when they
are not.

how can i do this? Thanks