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Outlook Web Access - Export Contacts?!
I am trying to export contacts from Outlook Web Access. Is that possible?
I tried circumventing that and exporting to Excel and Word from a Contacts file in public folders in Outlook just off someone's computer but it needs the Translator installed (I don't know where the disk is). I tried just creating a .pst and saved on the desktop, but it gave me a succinct error message to the effect of "that is so not going to happen." So I'm back to the account which apparently is only accessible via Web Access. This account is no longer on the shared network with the others in the office. I'm a temp in small, small office, so I don't have a lot of IT options. |
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Outlook Web Access - Export Contacts?!
No, that's possible. OWA is a web browser program. It has no awareness of the drives on your local compuer.
-- Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx "RMarko" wrote in message ... I am trying to export contacts from Outlook Web Access. Is that possible? I tried circumventing that and exporting to Excel and Word from a Contacts file in public folders in Outlook just off someone's computer but it needs the Translator installed (I don't know where the disk is). I tried just creating a .pst and saved on the desktop, but it gave me a succinct error message to the effect of "that is so not going to happen." So I'm back to the account which apparently is only accessible via Web Access. This account is no longer on the shared network with the others in the office. I'm a temp in small, small office, so I don't have a lot of IT options. |
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Outlook Web Access - Export Contacts?!
Dear Sue:
Thanks for your prompt response. To clarify, you mean it's not possible to export a Contact file from OWA. I should have been more clear: when I tried exporting to a .pst, that was not from OWA. I was trying other options before resorting to cutting-and-pasting 1000 addresses for a holiday card mailing Thank you again, I appreciate it. Sincerely, Rebecca "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: No, that's possible. OWA is a web browser program. It has no awareness of the drives on your local compuer. -- Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx "RMarko" wrote in message ... I am trying to export contacts from Outlook Web Access. Is that possible? I tried circumventing that and exporting to Excel and Word from a Contacts file in public folders in Outlook just off someone's computer but it needs the Translator installed (I don't know where the disk is). I tried just creating a .pst and saved on the desktop, but it gave me a succinct error message to the effect of "that is so not going to happen." So I'm back to the account which apparently is only accessible via Web Access. This account is no longer on the shared network with the others in the office. I'm a temp in small, small office, so I don't have a lot of IT options. |
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Outlook Web Access - Export Contacts?!
So you're not using OWA after all? You're using desktop Outlook? Create a new .pst file and copy the folder you want from Public Folders into the .pst file.
-- Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx "RMarko" wrote in message ... Dear Sue: Thanks for your prompt response. To clarify, you mean it's not possible to export a Contact file from OWA. I should have been more clear: when I tried exporting to a .pst, that was not from OWA. I was trying other options before resorting to cutting-and-pasting 1000 addresses for a holiday card mailing Thank you again, I appreciate it. Sincerely, Rebecca "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: No, that's possible. OWA is a web browser program. It has no awareness of the drives on your local compuer. "RMarko" wrote in message ... I am trying to export contacts from Outlook Web Access. Is that possible? I tried circumventing that and exporting to Excel and Word from a Contacts file in public folders in Outlook just off someone's computer but it needs the Translator installed (I don't know where the disk is). I tried just creating a .pst and saved on the desktop, but it gave me a succinct error message to the effect of "that is so not going to happen." So I'm back to the account which apparently is only accessible via Web Access. This account is no longer on the shared network with the others in the office. I'm a temp in small, small office, so I don't have a lot of IT options. |
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Outlook Web Access - Export Contacts?!
RMarko wrote:
Thanks for your prompt response. To clarify, you mean it's not possible to export a Contact file from OWA. Correct. OWA has no export or import capability. I should have been more clear: when I tried exporting to a .pst, that was not from OWA. Unlike OWA, which interfaces only with the Exchange server and does not know about the client PC, the local Outlook client resides on the PC and can do things there that OWA cannot, like see PSTs and manipulate them. If you have 1,000 addresses in your Exchange mailbox and you want to use them to create holiday cards, Outlook Web Access is not the interface you want to use. Use Office Outlook installed on your PC. Note: you should never export to or import from a PST. There's no need and you lose data in the process. If you want to copy what's in a PST, use Windows Explorer while Outlook is closed to make a copy of the PST. To use in Outlook the data in a PST, just open it in Outlook. -- Brian Tillman |
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