How to Import & Transfer Contacts From Yahoo Messenger

Yahoo offers an instant messaging service in the form of Yahoo Messenger. You can spend countless amounts of time populating your contact list in this service. Yet, you can minimize this time by importing contacts. Additionally, you can take contacts from your Yahoo Messenger account and transfer them to another location. Yahoo built an intuitive interface to allow you to easily perform these important tasks.

Instructions

1. Open the contacts menu in Messenger. Select, "Import Contacts". You will have the option to import from either your address book or from Outlook. Make sure to select one or both of these options.

2. Click "Next". Messenger will split your contacts into two groups. One will allow you to add contacts of people who already use Messenger. The second will allow you to send an invitation email to your contacts to get them to sign up for Messenger.

3. Populate your list. By default, everybody will be selected. If you do not wish to add or invite a contact, click the box next to his name to remove the check mark. Select "Next" and click "Finish".

4. Transfer your contacts. Go to address.yahoo.com. Select "Import/Export" and choose "Export" from the drop-down menu. Select which format to export your contacts. You can now import those contacts to another Yahoo Messenger account.

References

• Yahoo Messenger: Add Contacts