How to Export PST Contact Data to VCF
The Microsoft Outlook program, which is part of the Microsoft Office software suite, stores data on your local hard drive in files known as personal storage table files, or PSTs. A PST can contain email data, contact data, calendar data or a combination of the three. When working with contact records from a PST file, you can export the data into different formats. For example, you could save a PST contact item as a VCF file, also known as a vCard file, and then share it with other programs that recognize that format.
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Instructions
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Launch the Microsoft Outlook application on your PC.
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Open the "File" menu at the top of the window and click the "Open" button.
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Click the "Outlook Data File" option, select the PST file that contains the data you want to export and then press "OK."
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Click the "Folder List" icon in the lower-left corner of the main Outlook window. You will now see the name of the PST file you just opened and all of its sub-folders on the left side of the window. The PST contact's data is stored in a sub-folder labeled "Contacts."
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Highlight the "Contacts" sub-folder underneath the name of the PST file on the left side of the window.
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Click the contact item that you want to export or hold down the "Ctrl" key and select multiple items.
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Go to the "File" tab at the top of the window and choose the "Save As" option.
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Enter a name for the converted file and choose where you want to save it on your local hard drive.
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Open the drop-down menu next to "Save as type" and select the "vCard Files" option.
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Press the "Save" button. Outlook will now convert the selected contact data to the VCF format and export it to the location you specified in Step 8.
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