Saving Select Contacts for exporting

D

DKearsley

My contacts in Outlook are in CATEGORIES - I am trying to find a way to save
(for exporting to Excel) specific category (or cateogries)

Is there a simple way to do this? If I hilight the list within the
category, Outlook saves all contacts, not the specific ones highlighted.

DKearsley
 
B

Brian Tillman

DKearsley said:
My contacts in Outlook are in CATEGORIES - I am trying to find a way
to save (for exporting to Excel) specific category (or cateogries)

Is there a simple way to do this? If I hilight the list within the
category, Outlook saves all contacts, not the specific ones
highlighted.

I can't imagine why you'd want the contacts in Excel, but here's one way:

Create another Contacts folder. Switch the Contacts folder containing the
contacts you wish to export to the "By Category" view. Select one category
header you wish to export. CTRL-click the remaining category headers until
all the contacts you wish to export are selected. Click Edit>Copy to
Folder. Outlook will ask you for the destination folder. Specify the new
Contacts folder you just created and click OK. Outlook will tell you that
the action will apply to all the contacts in the categories you've selected.
Click OK. When the copy finishes, export the new Contacts folder because it
will contain contacts only from those categories you copied.
 
D

DKearsley

Thanks Brian - works perfectly.

Simply needed to download some contacts to Excel to export to a mailing web
site and it is an acceptable file.
 

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