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Old March 21st 06, 06:44 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
mitch
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Default how do I take a distribution list and make individual contacts

I have some large distribution lists - I'd now like to create individual
contact 'cards' for each of these people - is there a fast way to do it
without having to cut and paste each one individually?
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Old March 21st 06, 08:08 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
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Default how do I take a distribution list and make individual contacts

Mitch wrote:

I have some large distribution lists - I'd now like to create
individual contact 'cards' for each of these people - is there a fast
way to do it without having to cut and paste each one individually?


You could save the DL as a text file (it's tab-delimited), open it in Excel,
save it as a .csv, then import it into Outlook.
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Old March 21st 06, 09:06 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]
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Default how do I take a distribution list and make individual contacts

Or skip Excel: Open it in Notepad, delete the info at the top so all you have is the list of names, then import as a tab-delimited text file.

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Mitch wrote:

I have some large distribution lists - I'd now like to create
individual contact 'cards' for each of these people - is there a fast
way to do it without having to cut and paste each one individually?


You could save the DL as a text file (it's tab-delimited), open it in Excel,
save it as a .csv, then import it into Outlook.
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Brian Tillman

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Old March 21st 06, 09:53 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
mitch
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Default how do I take a distribution list and make individual contacts

Thanks - bearing in mind I am fairly new to Microsoft - I have saved as a
..csv and then tried importing but when I browse the files it doesn't show any
..csv files to choose from - help

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

Mitch wrote:

I have some large distribution lists - I'd now like to create
individual contact 'cards' for each of these people - is there a fast
way to do it without having to cut and paste each one individually?


You could save the DL as a text file (it's tab-delimited), open it in Excel,
save it as a .csv, then import it into Outlook.
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Brian Tillman


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Old March 22nd 06, 02:53 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Brian Tillman
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Default how do I take a distribution list and make individual contacts

Mitch wrote:

Thanks - bearing in mind I am fairly new to Microsoft - I have saved
as a .csv and then tried importing but when I browse the files it
doesn't show any .csv files to choose from - help


Since you get to choose where the CSV gets created, where did you tell it to
do so?
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