Notes 8.5 Contact Export

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Exporting Notes Contacts & Importing

Exporting Contacts from Lotus Notes 8.5 Template

  1. Must have Lotus Notes Client
  2. Open Lotus Notes and go to your address book.
  3. Click to choose which of your contacts you want to export.
  4. Click on the "File" menu and then select "Export Contacts."
  5. Click “Only the contacts selected” (or select all contacts)
  6. Click “Only Basic Fields” (if you select All fields, your import will not work correctly)
  7. Browse to select directory where you want to save the file.
  8. Select Comma Separated Value (.csv)
  9. Click Export

 Importing into Outlook

  1. Click the File tab.
  2. For Outlook 2007, Click Import.
  3. For Outlook 2010, Click File > Open > Import
  4. Click Import.
  5. Click Import from another program or file, and then click Next.
  6. Under Select the file type to import, click the file type of file you want to import, and then click Next.
  7. The most common is Comma Separated Values (Windows), also known as a CSV file
  8. Under File to import, click Browse, select the file that you want to import, and then click OK.
  9. In the Import a File dialog box, under Options, click one of the following:
  10. Replace duplicates with items imported If an Outlook contact already exists, it is replaced by the information that you are importing.
  11. Allow duplicates to be created If an Outlook contact exists, the imported contact is created as a second contact.
  12. Do not import duplicate items If an Outlook contact exists, the information for the imported contact is not imported.
  13. Click Next.
  14. In the Import a File dialog box, under Select destination folder, click a folder for the imported contacts and then click Next.
  15. This usually is the Contacts folder unless you have multiple accounts, or have created multiple contact folders for an account.
  16. Click Finish.