How to export all contacts from Outlook 2007 as vcard?

Question

Is there a way to save all my Outook 2007 contacts as vcards?

There is no option under menu File > Import and Export...

One can export each contact one by one by selecting the contact and choosing "Save As..." vcard. But that's not what I want. I am looking for a bulk operation.

Answer 1

It's a bit of a hack but it works:

• First select all your contact (ctrl+A)
• Right-click and select "Send as Business Card" (this will create a new email for you with all vcf cards attached. This can take a long time, be patient!
• In the new email select all the attachement (ctrl+A in the "Attached" field)
• Drag and drop the attachements on a fold on your computer... Et voilà!

Bonus tip: you can consolidate your vcf files into a single file (for gmail import for example). Just start a command prompt, go into the folder that contains you new vcards and type: COPY *.vcf MyNewFIle.vcf

If you cannot drag the attachments from the draft mail change the mail format to HTML and retry. If that fails then send it to yourself and get them attached once you receive it (or check in sent mail)

Answer 2

Tested solution:

1. press ctrl+a to select all contacts
2. drag and drop to the folder where you want the vcards to be saved.

that's all.

Answer 3

1. Follow the Help instructions in Outlook to export your Contacts as a CSV file
2. Copy this file to a computer that has Windows Contacts (e.g. Windows 7 or XP I think)
3. Follow the Help instructions in Windows 7 / XP to import Contacts (from a CSV file)
4. Follow the Help instructions in Windows 7 / XP to export Contacts (in vCard format)

Answer 4

Easy steps:

1. Open Outlook contacts
2. Press Ctrl+A and copy all contacts to a folder
3. Un-hide file extensions in folder options
4. Change file extension from .msg to .vcf
   • open a command prompt
   • cd to the folder in which the contacts are
   • type ren *.msg *.vcf

That's it, all contacts have been changed to VCF files.

Answer 5

Open up your contact of choice. Select File/saveas/export to vCard. Once you select export to vCard, save that vCard into a folder where you will remember the location.