How to Import an Address Book in SBCglobal Email

Setting up a new email account is a wonderful time to get a fresh start with little-to-no spam coming to the account. One of the drawbacks to a new account is getting all of your contacts set up in it. Adding one name and email address at a time to your SBCglobal address book can take hours of work. Fortunately, you can import your address book into your new or existing SBCglobal (AT&T Yahoo!) email account. What would take hours of manual work can be done in a matter of a few minutes when you automatically import the address book.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Open the address book containing all of the addresses you want to import into the SBCglobal address book.

2. Look for an "Export" link in your current address book. In Outlook, you can find the "Export" link under the "File" category at the top of the window. If you can't find the export link after a couple of minutes, look up "export addresses" in the "Help" section of your program.

3. Select the addresses you want to export (and then import) into your SBCglobal account by clicking the appropriate list or folder.

4. Choose the file format to save the exported file. In Outlook and Outlook Express, choose the comma separated values extension ".csv." If the other program (like Yahoo!) you use has the ".csv option," you can use it. You can also save the file as a ".ldif" (Netscape) or ".vcf" (vCard) file.

5. Save the exported file to your hard drive. You can name the file anything you want so long as you remember the name of the file. Pay special attention to the location on the hard drive where you saved the file.

6. Log into your SBCglobal account on the Web as you would to check your email.

7. Select the link taking you to the address book section of your account.

8. Use the import function by clicking the "Import/Export" link on the webpage.

9. Select the program you used to export the address book from the list of options in the drop-down menu under "Choose a program to import contacts from."

10. Provide the computer location for the file you want to import in the box under "Specify the file to import." You can use the "Browse" button to look for the file on your hard drive if you don't want to type in the file's location.

11. Import the addresses by clicking the "Import Now" button.

12. Look for the newly added contacts in your SBCglobal address book.

Tips & Warnings

• If you import an old list, you may have information you need to update. Update information quickly in the address book program you are most familiar with so you import the most recent information possible.