The process of importing Outlook contacts to Thunderbird Address Book is possible manually. So, if you had switched to Thunderbird Mail from Outlook, it is necessary to migrate Outlook people into Thunderbird too. The outlook email client is a very popular platform to manage Contacts & Address Book details.
Again, if you need any help, feel free to contact me.The article explains the simple process of how to import Outlook Contacts to Thunderbird email clients. The last thing you want to do as you do the import is when you get to the screen that says “define mapped fields” (will be in upper right hand corner of wizard) make sure that you follow the instructions on that Go to the import process in Outlook... (In Outlook – File–>Import/Export–>Import from another program or file–>Excel With the entire range of data highlighted go to: (Whatever name you chose make sure it’s only ONE word) Next in your Excel sheet: you have to highlight the entire range of data you want to import into Outlook. If you can rename the header row using “fields” recognized by Outlook that’s good but you will get a chance later on to tell Outlook what field goes with what field. The wizard may ask you if you want to replace the destination cells….but you’ve already inserted your three new columns so tell it yes! I had to do one modification because one person did have a middle initial and I didn’t want that….so I just put the last name into the correct field and then deleted out the unnecessary “middle” initial column!
Next: if the full contact name is in one cell you have to tell Excel to break the name into separate cells….insert three new columns to the right of the full name column. First Name, Last Name, Address, Phone Number, Email, Website, etc) (A header row is a row that has labels for each column indicating what is in that column – e.g. Okay, first things first….may sure you have a header row in your Excel Sheet. If you need help feel free to contact me. My instructions may tell you things you already know but I don’t want to assume. (I haven’t had to do this since I upgraded to Excel 2007) These instructions are written for Excel 2003 so be aware they may not work exactly as instructed in other versions.
Importing Contacts from Excel into Outlook. Maybe you have a Virtual Assistant that is helping your life get more organized so you can be more efficient! Why not hand these notes over to your VA? There is a quick and efficient way to import all contacts from Excel into Outlook so that you don’t have to manually re-type all of them.
If you are in a business that attends a lot of trade shows or you simply have kept all of your Contacts in Excel in the past.