How to Manage (Export/Import/Move/Backup/Copy) Outlook Address Book?

MS Outlook, a well-known and constantly evolving email application offered by Microsoft. Outlook is a complete administrator that can store all mailbox elements like contacts, emails, calendar and tasks, journals and so on. It's an updated email client that is favored by a lot of users across the globe. Therefore, the primary goal in this post is to concentrate specifically on Outlook Address Book. It has been discovered numerous times that people wait to import, export or transfer, backup or duplicate Outlook contacts. The article offers complete instructions on how to use Outlook Address Book, including how to access the Outlook Address Book and how to transfer contact information from one platform to the next and from one mail client to the next.


Overview of Outlook Address Book Outlook Address Book

If you've installed and installed and configured Outlook in your phone, you will have your Outlook default Outlook address book. This Outlook address book often known as OAB comprises a number of Outlook contacts folders. You may think that OAB is physically-based address book but it isn't true. It is in essence the concept of virtualization and it is not a physical address book. OAB is just a primary folder for contacts. The contacts folder within OAB includes a personal view and nothing more and is the reason why it can't function on its own. Another misconception regarding OAB could be Outlook doesn't store the OAB files that aren't within your data store.


There are several locations for PAB files across various Windows versions:

Windows Vista/7/8/8.1

C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook


Windows XP/Windows Server 2003

C: Documents and Settings \User\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook


Procedures for copying steps to copy PAB (Physical OAB) to another System

→ Go to MS Outlook. MS Outlook software

You can go to the "Tool" menu and then select "E-mail Account"

→ Then, click on "Directory" option - view or modify directories in your existing directory or address book Next. Then.

under "You can choose a directory or address book below to change or remove it" option, click "Personal Address Book" Then click the "Change" option.

→ Then, copy the path to your PAB file into the "Path" box.

Close Outlook then start Windows Explorer.

→ In the Address Bar of Windows Explorer, paste the path of the file PAB.

→ Then, you will be able to see that file within the folder that is opened. From here , you are able to choose and save the PAB file to a different device using the appropriate media.


Methods for Exporting Outlook Address Book

Start Outlook app and select the "File" Option.

→ Then a new window will open, click Open and Export, select "Import/Export".

→ In the "Import and Export" wizard window, select 'Export to a folder' then click on the "Next" tab.

→ If you are in the "Export to a file" window, select "Comma Separated Values" and then select the "Next" tab.

In the section "Select folder to export from:" choose "Contacts" and click"Next".

→ Then select the "Browse" option to choose the destination folder. Then, select the destination name of the file and click the "Next" tab.

→ Finally, to finish the procedure, click on the "Finish" button.


How to import Contacts files to MS Outlook

Open Outlook to open it. Then select the "File" menu

→ Then, click to the Open & Export button and select "Import/Export".

Now within the "Import/Export" wizard, click on "Import from another program or file" from the menu of options, after which select"Next"

→ In the Import from a file window, browse "Comma Separated Values" file you wish to import, before you hit"Next"

→ If you are unsure, check the option to either remove duplicates or permit them to be added, then click on the "Next" button.

Choose "destination folder" - Select "destination folder" where you would like to import your Contacts. Then, you click"Next"

→ Finally, to finish the procedure, click on "Finish" button.

→ If you would like to view your contact list, choose "People icon" at the bottom of Outlook.


How can you backup the contacts folders in Outlook?

→ You can open MS Outlook with any version

Select the "Home" button > "New Item" > "More Item" > "Outlook Data File"

→ Then click "Contacts Navigation" - Now choose "Contacts navigation" board

→ You can click to open "Contact Folder" - Click on "contact folder" that you want to backup, then following that choose "Copy folder"

→ A New dialog box be displayed and you can select "backup contacts folder" and click the "OK" button

→ Then close the Outlook application. Make an backup of your newly created backup Contacts PST file to the backup file.


Final Words

A lot of technical expertise is not necessary to complete this job. By following the steps which we've discussed in the past it is easy to handle Your Outlook Address Book effectively. A little bit of knowledge is sufficient to manage your Outlook address book without a huge difficulty.


 


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