Performing Outlook Contacts Recovery

The Outlook program provides the users an option to save the contact details of every person that they have an email transaction with. This helps the users keep an electronic backup of the contacts in the Outlook program. These contact details contain the Phone contacts together with all the information about the person like Name, Tile, Email address, Company details etc. However, there are many instances where the Outlook contacts get corrupted and you have to do an urgent Outlook address book recovery to get back the contacts.

Scenario For Outlook Contacts Corruption

When corruption of files occurs in the Outlook program, the .PST file is damaged and other details along with the email data such as tasks, contacts, notes etc are corrupted too. And when it comes to contacts, in a business front or even in the personal life, you will not be able to afford to lose them. While trying to access the corrupted file, you may come up with an error saying,

ERROR: "An unexpected error prevented access to this file"

Users of the Outlook program often come up with these sorts of issues where they are prohibited from opening contacts that are stored in the Outlook PST file due to the corruption in the PST file. In such a situation, the exact issue is with the contacts list. When the user tries to access the contacts, they either disappear randomly or become corrupt. At times, the problem is also associated with the Distribution list as they also disappear or become corrupt. In this situation, performing a recovery of the Outlook Address book is the only possible solution. Probable causes of the corruption are often connected to external devices like pen drives, external hard drives etc.

It can also be connected to network that can spread virus infections to the computer and thus infect the PST files that are present in the computer. You can do the following steps to overcome this situation.

• Try running the scanpst.exe file on the corrupted PST file. If the corruption of the Outlook program is minor, this method can help you heal the PST file that contains your crucial contacts.
• Delete and rebuild the Distribution Lists.
• If you are having a backup of the contacts, you can restore it from the backup of the PST file.

These are the steps to do the Outlook contacts recovery. If you have any doubts, you can contact our tech support team.

How To Convert Excel To Outlook Contacts

When it comes to record keeping and emailing, Microsoft provides excellent applications that can do the job effectively. Two such applications are Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Outlook, which when used in coordination, make things easier.

MS Excel is a multifunctional application that can be used for PST file management, record keeping and other similar activities. Its built-in tools let you do complex calculations easily. MS Outlook is a popular email client application used widely for email management. It also has other features like calendars, task managers, drafts, journals etc., making the user experience more enjoyable.

Microsoft Excel makes it easy to save records and data as Excel spreadsheets. When you save data within Excel sheets, it is easier to search for the information and send them as email attachments. This way, you can easily access theses files from anywhere. It is also possible to send emails to email addresses fed in these excel sheets. However, MS Excel does not allow you to send emails in bulk to multiple contacts. But you can easily overcome this drawback by configuring Excel contacts with your Outlook Address Book.

Converting Excel contacts to Outlook Contacts

To make group emailing convenient and quick, you could convert your MS Excel contacts to Outlook contacts. Here, we will see how to convert Excel to Outlook contacts. The below mentioned steps will let you perform the task easily.

Launch MS Outlook on your computer.

• Go to the File menu, then select the option Import and Export and further select Import from another program.
• Now you need to choose the Microsoft excel 97-2003 format.
• Browse to the Excel file location that you need to import.
• Make sure to enable the option to remove duplicates while importing.
• This will successfully import all Excel contacts to your Outlook Address Book.

Things to be kept in mind while converting Excel contacts to Outlook contacts

• Only versions till 2003 supports importing Excel files.
• Error messages are sometimes displayed while importing Excel files to Outlook.
• It might not work if you change Excel files to CSV file format.
• In addition, there is a possibility that not all details will be imported to Outlook. 

There are also third party tools available that can easily convert Excel files to Outlook data. If you have any further doubts on this, contact Microsoft Support Center and get more assistance.