If you are looking for a way to transfer a list of contacts from one Outlook to another or you want to add them to your Gmail or iCloud account, we have you covered.

You could apparently re-add the contacts to other accounts manually which can take a lot of time and effort. But there is a sleek and quicker way to do it. 

So without further delay, let’s get right into the article and learn about various ways of transferring your Outlook contacts.

Transferring your Outlook contacts is basically a two-step process. First, you export the CSV file and then import it into the application to which you want to add the contacts.

In this article, we discuss different ways to transfer your Outlook contacts across Gmail, iPhone, and among multiple Outlook accounts.

If you have an Outlook desktop application, you can transfer contacts in the following two steps.

Before you can get your hands on the contacts on one of your Outlook accounts, you need to export them in CSV format. Here’s how you can do it.

Once you have obtained the CSV file, you can use it to import and add the list of contacts to your Outlook app on another computer. Here’s how you can do it. 

Even if you don’t have Outlook installed on your system, you can use Outlook’s web app. It is more or less the same method as the desktop version. Here’s how you can do it.

Similarly, to import the contacts, choose the Import contacts option from the Manage dropdown.

If you are using an iPhone, you can access the Outlook account and then add/sync its contacts to the device. Here’s how you can do it:

Once you export the CSV file, which contains your Outlook contacts, you can easily import them to your Gmail account. Here’s how you can do it.

Also, you can add the contacts on your Gmail account to your Outlook account by exporting the CSV file from Gmail and importing them into the Outlook account.

There isn’t a direct way to import the contacts list in an Excel file in Outlook unless it is in CSV format. So, while saving the Excel document, select the CSV(Comma delimited) option next to the Save as type. Now, you can import the CSV file into your Outlook account, as explained in the above sections.

The translation error occurs when the CSV file you are importing hasn’t used proper control characters like a carriage return. For this, open the CSV file in Excel, save it as a new file and then import it. See if it works.

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