How to Backup Your Outlook Contacts to Excel File?

Microsoft's Outlook is integrated into Microsoft Office 2000, 2002, 2008 and Microsoft Exchange Server. Outlook is complete e-mail manager by which you e-mail, calendaring, and contact management. Outlook enables you to filter and organize e-mail messages, integrate and manage e-mail from multiple e-mail accounts, personal and group calendars, contacts, folders, and tasks.

Using Import and Export feature in Outlook, you can create the full backup of outlook contacts. Because without backup yon can lose your e-mail accounts data any time due to virus, power failure and hard disk problem.

Follow the given steps to export your outlook contacts to Excel file:

Click on Start button, go to Program then click on Microsoft Outlook to export the contacts.

Now go to File menu and click on Import and Export option. Choose Export to a file as show in the below figure then click Next.

Now on next dialog box, choose Microsoft Excel and click Next.

Select the Contacts Folder you want to backup to Excel file as shown below then click Next.

Choose a name and location where to save the Excel file by clicking Browse button, then click Next.

Click Finish to start the back up procedure which may take little time depending on how many contacts you have.