Outlook is the most popular free email and calendar service in the world and available in both software and web-based versions to manage your email directly online. Nowadays, cell phones are the devices on which it is easiest to store all your personal contacts, work contacts, acquaintances and family members. For this reason, the need often arises to want to synchronize your mobile phone’s address book with your email client service, such as Outlook.
How to Transfer Mobile Address Book to Outlook
There are several ways to sync and Transfer cell phone address book to Outlook. Below we will see both the manual method and the one that uses programs specifically designed for managing the data and address book of your mobile phone, whether it is an Android or iOS device (iPhone/iPad).
Solution 1. Manual Method
The manual method to transfer your mobile phone’s address book to Outlook consists of two main phases: the first phase is to export the mobile phone contacts to your computer in CSV format and the second phase is to import the CSV file into Outlook .
To export cell phone contacts to CSV on your cell phone you can use GMAIL (in the case of Android devices) or if you have an iPhone you can try to export iPhone contacts from iCloud to CSV.
Once you have the CSV file of the address book on your computer, to import it into Outlook here are the steps to follow:
- In Outlook 2010 go to the File > Open menu and click “It matters”. In Outlook 2007 and 2003 go to File > Import and Export instead
- Select “Import from another program or file” and then click on “After you”
- Select “Comma Separated Values” and select the CSV file of your address book from your computer
- Before completing the operations, you will have to “Map the fields of the CSV file” for the import to be successful. Click on the appropriate button
- Now, drag the fields you want to import, from the left to the right column. Once you have mapped all the desired CSV columns click OK and then FINISH. Now all data will be transferred from CSV to your Outlook.
Solution 2. Automated method via software
To transfer the contacts from your mobile phone’s address book to your Outlook there is some very simple software to use that can help you with the operation.
If you have an iPhone, for example, it’s there TunesGO who can do this. In this regard, read how to synchronize iPhone with Outlook.
If you have an Android mobile phone (Samsung, Huawei, HTC, Sony, Motorola, LG, etc.) you can use the program MobileGO, a powerful tool that allows you to easily manage all the data on your Android phone. Read about it how to export android contacts to outlook.
