Outlook Express Email Tip – Exporting email addresses

Part of the Microsoft Outlook Express Email software is the address function which helps you organise your contacts’ details such as names, addresses and phone numbers.

If you wish to make a backup copy, or use these contacts in a different program such as Microsoft Excel, or import into a Social Media site such as LinkedIn you will need to export the Address Book from Outlook Express, usually into CSV format. (CSV stands for comma separated values, it is a widely used format for moving information between different programs).

Tip: Having a backup of your information held within Outlook Express is invaluable should you ever need to repair Microsoft Outlook Express.

This is a quicktip intended to offer Outlook Express Help in a Windows environment.

An extract from the Microsoft Support Article “How to back up and restore Outlook Express data” at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/270670 (First make sure you have created a place to store your data such as a folder called Mail Backup or something meaningful to you. In Step 7 below, select all fields to be on the safe side)

To export the Address Book to a .csv file, follow these steps:

1. On the File menu, click Export, and then click Address Book.
2. Click Text File (Comma Separated Values), and then click Export.
3. Click Browse.
4. Select the Mail Backup folder that you created.
5. In the File Name box, type address book backup, and then click Save.
6. Click Next.
7. Click to select the check boxes for the fields that you want to export, and then click Finish.
8. Click OK, and then click Close.

You now have a copy of your Outlook Express Email address book for safe keeping. We hope you have found this free Outlook Express tip useful, feel free to request more information by leaving a comment or contacting us directly.

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