How to Restore Outlook Express Address Book

You have backed up your Microsoft Outlook Express Email Address book and now you want to restore the backup to your computer. Here are some practical ways to get your Contacts back where they belong--on your computer.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Computer
• Microsoft Windows
• Outlook Express Email

1. Locate the folder or media for your backup. If it is on a CD, external backup hard drive or USB drive, go ahead and insert that into the drive on your computer. The file will appear on your computer screen. Hopefully you named it something easy to remember that you can quickly locate and click on.

2. Open up Outlook Express on the file menu on the top of your screen, click "Import," and then "Other Address Book."

3. Select the text file choice and then import.

4. To locate your stored addresses from the file on the media (CD, USB or other backup media) select browse and then find your file. The file should end with .csv.

5. Click on "Open" and then "Next."

6. Wait a few minutes, click "OK" and "Close" this screen.

Tips & Warnings

• Take note of what you named the address file when you backed it up. This will make the process easier.
• This process is for the .csv (comma separated values) method
• This is not to be confused with Microsoft Outlook.

[storey64]

on 8/3/2009 I have Outlook email saved on an USB and want to open them in Gmail. What do I have to do?

[MidniteWriter]

on 3/8/2009 Comments welcome!Please email me first if you'd like a link to one of your articles, and I will put your article in my resources section. Thank you!

[Diablo2]

on 2/5/2008 Outlook was one of my main "obstacles" while working on the technical helpdesk side; but at the same time Outlook makes one feel so much more relaxed thanks to its easy navigation. Much better than Lotus Notes, anyway. Thanks, I have to keep this article handy!