When I import contacts to outlook as CSV with birthdayswhich are in 28.01.2023 EU format,...

This reply is extremely unhelpful!

I have the same Problem:

I want to switch from iPhone to a Windows Phone. I have been trying all morning to copy my contacts from iPhone to Outlook, and am immensely frustrated that this is super complicated to do and not working..


So far, for the simple task of migrating my contacts I have had to:

• download iTunes
  
• download iCloud
  
• sync my iPhone with iTunes and iCloud
  
• from iCloud.com I saved my contacts as VCard on my Windows Desktop (so far so good)
  

• Now, Windows “People" will not allow me to upload VCard contacts on the desktop (why not?), so I have to go to outlook.com
  
• on outlook.com I select the section “People". Here I can select upload contacts from a file via
  
  https://people.live.com/import/other?biciid=ImportCatalog, but it only allows to use CSV format, and not the industry standard VCard used every where else
  
• I used a VCF => CSV conversion tool, and saved the VCard as a CSV file on my desktop
  
• Every time “Outlook.com” tries to upload the CSV file with my contacts it tells me “The file is empty or not in the correct format” (see screenshot)
  

• Next, I downloaded several different VCard => CSV conversion tools / apps, and saved the VCard as a CSV files on my desktop. None of them worked, and it always said the format is not right.
  

Now I am really annoyed and frustrated. I wasted several hours of my life trying to do this shit and it still doesn’t work. Why do you make it so difficult for people to migrate from Apple to Windows? This should be made easy for people!

What can I do to save my iPhone / iCloud contacts under windows “People"?

ALSO, PLEASE SEND TO THE MICROSOFT R&D / DEVELOPMENT TEAM:
(1) CAN YOU PLEASE PROGRAMME A TOOL, TO IMPORT ICLOUD CONTACTS DIRECTLY TO WINDOWS “PEOPLE”?

This should be added as an option under this link:
https://people.live.com/import ; or better - this option should be directly in the Desktop "People" Application, without having to go to the internet.

Please fix this, otherwise I cannot migrate from iPhone to windows phone!

(2) or as a work-around; CAN YOU UPGRADE “PEOPLE” SO THAT VCARDS CAN DIRECTLY BE UPLOADED HERE?

This should be added as an option under this link:
https://people.live.com/import/other?biciid=ImportCatalog

Migrating contacts from iPhone to Windows is so incredibly complicated and frustrating. If there is no easy solution I will just buy an iPhone again, and not a Windows phone…!!!

Please help!

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But in the Outlook 2019 app, I can't find the "Insert" command. Where is the Contacts folder?

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Do not understand the questions if you are using Outlook '2019. The screenshot in my previous reply follow the required steps. If that is not what you are seeing when you create a new email message, please provide a screenshot of what you encounter when you create a new email message as was described before starting the numbered steps

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In order to send a <Contact Group> to someone else is as follows when creating a new message

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Hi Jamie, I have had normal access to my account *** Die E-Mail-Adresse wurde aus Datenschutzgründen entfernt. *** until today when my side opens up as thea shaws account. we both are registered with outlook but with different adresses.

I open my account though an icon, but as of today theas account opnes up??

Thank you for your help

Lothar

Dear JUSTANOTHERANNOYEDUSER

I am an independent advisor, and I am trying to help other users in Community with my experience in Microsoft products.

As bounce back email suggests, you should contact your email provider and show him the message that you are receiving with the link to what he needs to do in order for IP to be whitelisted

Hallo HPI_,



"However, the following parameters are required to create an external contact and must be populated:

•ExternalEmailAddress

•Name

•FirstName

•LastName

•OtherTelephone

•Manage



When you’re finished preparing the CSV file, copy it to your desktop. Name it ExternalContacts.csv."



Überprüfe bitte die angeforderten Felder. Verwende bitte die csv Dateivorlage.



"Download
the sample CSV file posted on the Downloads forum on the Office 365 community site. The sample file is actually a .txt file. So open it in Microsoft Excel, and save it as a CSV file. Use commas as the delimiters."

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Desislava Dimova



Microsoft Office 365 Support Engineer