Sadly, due to an oversight when migrating my Outlook data from one computer to the other, my AutoComplete cache was lost and since I never added people as a Contact, my Contacts folder is heavily outdated. I'm now going through my Inbox and Sent Items folder and right click on a sender or recipient and choose: Add to Outlook Contacts This is of course a
really slow process and I think I've learned my lesson by now. It there a quicker way to review the senders and recipients and add them to my Contacts folder without creating a massive amount of duplicate contacts? The 5 steps below describe the entire process which in reality only takes a few minutes to complete (it sure took longer to write them down). As an alternative, to fully automate it and also to prevent you forget to add people as contacts in the future, you can use an add-in instead as well. Two of them are listed at the bottom of this guide. Step 1: Export “From Name” and “From Address” to a csv-fileIn this example, we’ll use the Inbox folder as a source but you can use any other mail folder as well. See the section below Step 5 when you want to use the Sent Items folder as a source.
Make sure you only export the “From: (Name)” and “From: (Address)” fields. Step 2: Remove duplicatesAs you've most likely received multiple emails from the some senders, we’ll remove the duplicates.This is a very easy task we can perform in Excel.
Step 3: Remove internal Exchange addressIf you are using an Exchange account, then you’ll also see some addresses in the x500 format. As these are internal addresses of Exchange and these people are part of your Global Address Book, we can filter them out in the following way.
Step 4: Further filtering and savingDepending on whether you are happy with the current results, you can apply additional filters or review the remaining list of names and addresses manually. By right clicking on a row number and choosing “Delete” you can remove an entire row.Once you are happy with the results,
use the Save As feature in Excel. It is recommended to save it under another name such as: Make sure you save it as a csv-file and select to save only the selected sheet (your copied and fully filtered list) when prompted. Step 5: Import the csv-file into your Contacts folderNow that you have a fully filtered list of names and addresses, you can import them as contacts in the following way.
Map your fields from the CSV-file to the correct Contact fields in Outlook. Note: When you don’t see both fields in the Map Custom Fields dialog, it means that you csv-file was not saved with a comma as the delimiter. To correct this see: Importing a contacts csv export. Using the Sent Items folder as a sourceIf you want to use the Sent Items folder as a source for your Contacts, then you can achieve this by exporting the To (Name) and To (Address) fields in Step 1.10.However, in Step 4, you must filter out all the rules which have a semicolon ( ; ) in them as those rows contain multiple addresses which can't be directly imported as multiple contacts. The same applies when you want to do this for the CC field for any mail folder. Fully automate adding new contacts with an add-inEven though the above process is quite an efficient way to quickly review and add a lot of senders or recipients as Contacts, you can also fully automate it with one of the add-ins below.
Both add-ins offer the option to process already sent or received emails and also to select a Contacts folder to save the contacts to. They both are also careful not to create any duplicates even when that contact already exist in another folder. In addition, they offer the option to add new contacts the first time you send an email to that person so you’ll never forget adding people as contacts again. A few of the options of the Add Contacts add-in by MAPILab.
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