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Louise - 03 Jul 2007 19:28 GMT

Another problem caused by having to change hard drive. I saved all my email
addresses and now have them on disc as .rtf files. How do I get them all
back into my Outlook 2002 address book?

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Gordon - 03 Jul 2007 19:32 GMT

> Another problem caused by having to change hard drive. I saved all my
> email
> addresses and now have them on disc as .rtf files.

Why? Who told you to do that?

> How do I get them all
> back into my Outlook 2002 address book?

Are you saying that you have one rtf file for EACH address?

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Louise - 03 Jul 2007 19:48 GMT

hmm from you response I am guessing clearly that was the wrong thing to do
BUT the whole thing died so it was a last ditch effort.

Yes I have each list of email addresses on .rtf and I have a horrible
feeling you are going to tell me to print it out and type them all back
in..........

> > Another problem caused by having to change hard drive. I saved all my
> > email
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>
> Are you saying that you have one rtf file for EACH address?

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Gordon - 03 Jul 2007 19:53 GMT

> hmm from you response I am guessing clearly that was the wrong thing to do
> BUT the whole thing died so it was a last ditch effort.
>
> Yes I have each list of email addresses on .rtf and I have a horrible
> feeling you are going to tell me to print it out and type them all back
> in..........

Firstly, I'm interested as to how you actually exported Contacts to rtf
format - certainly outlook 2007 has no option to export to rtf format...

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Louise - 03 Jul 2007 20:06 GMT

well in trying to recreate it I think I just went to the list in address book
and saved and .rtf was an option. Not the worst as it happens because i can
still cut and paste them back but had hoped to just save to disc and then
get them back to the address book when needed.

> > hmm from you response I am guessing clearly that was the wrong thing to do
> > BUT the whole thing died so it was a last ditch effort.
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> Firstly, I'm interested as to how you actually exported Contacts to rtf
> format - certainly outlook 2007 has no option to export to rtf format...

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Gordon - 03 Jul 2007 20:13 GMT

> well in trying to recreate it I think I just went to the list in address
> book
> and saved and .rtf was an option. Not the worst as it happens because i
> can
> still cut and paste them back but had hoped to just save to disc and then
> get them back to the address book when needed.

Interesting! Outlook 2007 only gives a text option to "save as"..might be a
longish work around...open the rtf file in Word - do a "Save As" as a plain
text file - open that in Excel, format it and save as a CSV file. Then you
should be able to import that into Outlook. (Depends on how many contacts
you have....)

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Louise - 23 Jul 2007 03:30 GMT

> > well in trying to recreate it I think I just went to the list in address
> > book
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> should be able to import that into Outlook. (Depends on how many contacts
> you have....)

Thanks for that, I just had a chance to try it. It works, after a fashion.
All info is now in contacts but I need to finesse it a bit. I will keep
trying as it does not seem to be usable as is. I am certainly closer than I
was before in trying to resolving this.
Susan

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