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Lost Outlook Contacts
Hi. I upgraded a friend from Office 2016 to Office 2024 and in the process lost her contacts. I have worked at finding them but no luck. Plan B is populate her contact list from her messages. Is it possible to either collect addresses from a set of emails and move those addresses to the contact list? Or even just go to each message individually and right-click on an address and send to contacts? (not an option now) Or can you suggest any other option? Thanks.
Yes, you can export the folder those messages are in to a csv-file and then import the senders as contacts in your Contacts folder.
For step-by-step instructions see; Add all email senders or recipients as Contacts - Robert 365
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Are you talking about the autocomplete when you start typing an email or the contacts in the Outlook Classic that uses the address book? These are two different things.
Can you not see the contacts on MS365 web/outlook? Nothing worse than losing data, I hope you get them back. Contactzilla might work in future if you want a backup.
Yes, you can export the folder those messages are in to a csv-file and then import the senders as contacts in your Contacts folder.
For step-by-step instructions see; Add all email senders or recipients as Contacts - Robert 365
Thanks RobertSparnaaij. The process worked like a charm.
Jim
