Importing Contacts from Excel file

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Scott - 07 Mar 2006 00:41 GMT

Hello:

Since I had to install a new hard drive to my laptop, I saved, exported my
contacts list to a XLS file. I opened this file and see all my contacts in
there.

Now I am trying to import all of them back into Outlook. When I do the steps
and it completes I look in my contacts and only a few are there and of the
ones that are there, they are out of order and by name I mean, plus there is
no spacing between the first and last names too.

No idea what is wrong. Can someone help me out here?

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Judy Gleeson MVP Outlook - 07 Mar 2006 10:00 GMT

did you save the .pst file anywhere? What version are you running?

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 07 Mar 2006 10:07 GMT

Nothing to go on here. Post the steps you are using, including how you named
your range and how you mapped your fields. Exporting to a foreign file
format is never a good idea and in no way backs up data. It only loses data.

Do you have your original data file?

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