Tag: Outlook contact exporting
Understanding Multi-line Outlook Street Addresses
A complaint seen frequently is that when street address fields are exported from Outlook, the field is either not exported correctly and/or the field contains strange characters. This would particularly be the case if the data was exported to either a Microsoft Excel or Access file in Outlook ‘2010 or earlier or to a CSV […]
Understanding when to use Outlook Import/Export
The primary purpose of this article is to review the most common reasons that people opt to use the Outlook import/export process and highlighting better and more reliable options. There is certainly no single one-size fits all blanket answer as to whether or not you should import/export Outlook data. Certainly, if the purpose is to […]
Understanding Outlook Home, Business, Other Mailing Address Fields
There are 3 sets of address fields that can be used when importing information in Outlook (Home, Business, Other). To use the Business Address as an example (everything applies equally to all 3 address groups), the fields applicable to that group are (field names are shown as Internal Outlook names followed by the Outlook Display […]
Outlook 2013 Import/Export changes
With the introduction of Outlook 2013, there are now only 2 file types supported for both import and export: 1) CSV file 2) PST File While <CSV> is actually an Excel file type, the one thing that has not changed is how Excel 2013 generates a CSV file from a worksheet. Like it’s predecessors, Excel […]
List of Outlook Standard Contact Field Names
There are two sets of field names used by Outlook for standard fields – internal names and Display Names (used by the Field Chooser during custom form design and shown in the All Fields List when displaying detailed contact information). The Display Names are based on the Microsoft Office language setting in use and change […]
