Export contacts from Yahoo! & Hotmail to Outlook 2007

Question

How can I export my contact lists in Yahoo! and Hotmail accounts to Outlook 2007? If you have done that before, was it easy and %100 percent successful (i.e. no missing or duplicate entries)?

Answer 1

Yahoo Mail

http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_do_i_export_my_yahoo_mail_address_book.html

It doesn't specifically talk about Outlook, but th option is clearly shown in a screenshot.

Hotmail

If you do not have a Hotmail Plus subscription, which is required for this export process, you can export your Windows Live Hotmail contacts to a CSV file, from which in turn most email programs and services should be able to import your address book.

http://email.about.com/od/windowslivehotmailtips/qt/Export_Contacts_Email_Addresses_from_Windows_Live_Hotmail.htm

Answer 2

A much easyer way is to use a hosted service like MemoToo and you can check out how I set it up on my blog.

If you go to http://memotoo.com and setup an account you can have your contacts synced with tons of services including:

• Outlook
• Google Contacts
• Google Calander
• Facebook (One way)
• LinkedIn (One way)
• Windows Live Contacts
• Yahoo Contacts
• Twitter
• Windows Mobile
• Android
• Plaxo
• Soocial
• SheduleWorld
• UNYK
• Vodafone 360 (this is a realy crap service though)
• And tones more

Its also ver cheap and you only need to pay £12 per year if you have more than 50 contacts. I have 2000+ and it work just fine.

I did have a couple of hours of De-duping to do afterwords with so many services, but once you have sone that once all is good. Most dups can be deleted, but if you have a contact on Facebook and LinkedIn it is better to merge them. the service than knows to keep one for both serives.