vCards are virtual business cards by which user can share the contact information with others. vCards contains information like name, address, phone number and email id. Outlook user can import or export vCards.
users can convert all their Outlook contacts in vCard format, Outlook does not provide any direct option to convert Outlook contacts to vCard but this conversion is possible with Outlook.
User can select multiple Outlook contacts and forward contact information in vCard format.
Outlook user can export Outlook contacts to vCards in two ways:
• By exporting multiple Outlook contacts to multiple vCard files
• By exporting multiple contacts to single vCard file
Method To Export Multiple Outlook Contacts To Multiple vCard Format
- Click on People tab
- Select all contacts
- Click on Forward Contact on Home Tab
- Select As a Business card
- A new message will display on screen with all selected contacts added as vCard attachments.
- Right click in the Attached files and choose Select All option
- Now Drag & drop the selected items out of Outlook and into Window Explorer folder. alternative, user could also use CTRL+C in Outlook and CTRL+V in Explorer
Manual Method To Export All Outlook Contacts To Single vCard Format
- Export all Outlook contacts to CSV file
- Go to File and Click Open
- Click on Export and
- In Import/Export option click Export to a File
- Select Comma Separated Values
- In Gmail select the Contact by clicking on Gmail menu
- Now import the csv file More-> Import
- After importing, go to More-> Export
- Select vCard format (for it to another application)
Benefits of the Conversion:
• vCard can store multimedia data like text, images, audio clips, logos, etc.
• vCard takes minimal space for storing contact information.
• vCard format is compatible with devices such as droid based smartphones, Computers, Blackberry, Palmtops, etc.
Alternate Third party Tool to export Outlook contacts to vCard
vCard Export is a tool that come with five export option, one can export contacts from MS outlook profile in vcard, single vCard, WAB, Google or Yahoo contacts. After adding the PST in the software, it will auto detect the contacts and covert them in vCard format. user can load multiple PST at once and can perform bulk conversion.
Conclusion:
After going through different steps involved in Outlook contacts conversion to vCard format,one can easily perform this conversion manually. In order to add more usability user can also opt third party tools.
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