How to Import a CSV File with Contacts Directly into an Outlook Contact Group

Well, it doesn't. Let me tell you what does work:
1) backup your contacts to a .pst file
2) export your contacts to an Excel file
3) select and delete all your contacts
4) import the Excel file into your Contacts folder
5) copy the new contacts into the Contacts folder under your live account
6) sit back and enjoy the fact that now ALL contacts are synchronized with your live account
7) replace the contacts in your Personal folders with the back up (if you are afraid of data-loss and/or want to keep a file for your history - from now on you're going to use the contacts from your Live account folder)

Ahoi,

zu 1.:

• Export Thunderbird Address Book to LDIF (Address Book > Tools >
  
  Export...)
• Import LDIF into Windows Contacts:
  
  1. Start > username > Contacts
  2. click Import button on taskbar (if it's missing,
     try
     
     this)
  3. LDIF (LDAP server) > Import
• Import Windows Contacts into Outlook 2010:
  
  1. Outlook > File > Open > Import
  2. Import Internet Mail and Addresses
  3. Outlook Express 4.x, 5.x, 6.x or Windows Mail
  4. check "Import Address book"
  5. Next > Finish

zu 2.: Diese Adressen sollten automatisch im Ordner "Vorgeschlagene Kontakte" gespeichert werden.

VG,

Santa

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!

beim Importieren von CSV oder txt Dateien wird immer ein Autofilter angewendet.

Wie machst Du das denn?
<br />Power Query - How to import a CSV file that does not match your locale - Microsoft Community
<br />Andreas.
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Reset your system settings as described in this article:
System settings - How to import a CSV file that does not match your - Microsoft Community
Andreas.