save multiple Outlook contacts as vCard files at once

[Taudel]

Hi,

I want to back up some Outlook contacts to my local drive. I can use “Save As” to save a contact as a vCard file to my E drive. But if I select a few contacts in outlook then click "Save As ", it will save them all in a text file , not several vCard files. So I have to save them one by one.

As I have quite a few contacts, I hope there would be a way to batch save those contacts as vCard files. It will save much time for me. Any ideas? By the way, it’s outlook2010.

[veeg]

Hello

Hopefully some of our members will chime in soon.

@phillpower2 @gus

[Rustys]

Outlook doesn’t have an export option to directly export all your contacts as vCard files or a single multi-contact vCard file.

Here is a link to a site that has a way that I tried and works.

Export multiple Contacts as vCards

[jmarket]

hey,

You can forward contacts as business card as Rustys said above. And you can also use VBA to do that. Here is a article which is just about that, You can see if it helps you

2 Methods to Batch Export Multiple Outlook Contacts as vCard Files

And I also attch the macro codes here in case that the link may be invalid in the future.

Sub ExportMultipleContactsAsVCards()
Dim objSelection As Outlook.Selection
Dim objContact As Outlook.ContactItem
Dim objItem As Object
[CODE]Set objSelection = Outlook.Application.ActiveExplorer.Selection

'If want to export all contacts, use the following lines instead
'Dim olContacts as Outlook.Items
'Set olContacts = Outlook.Application.Session.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderContacts).Items
'For Each objItem In olContacts
For Each objItem In objSelection
    If TypeOf objItem Is ContactItem Then
       Set objContact = objItem
       'Change the predefined local folder for saving the vCards
       objContact.SaveAs "E:\" & objContact.FullName & ".vcf", olVCard
    End If
Next

End Sub[/CODE]

[veeg]

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[veeg]

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