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About importing and exporting personal addresses
You can import personal address information about your contacts from other applications, such as Outlook Express, or export your personal addresses from FirstClass.
In both cases, the transfer is done using vCard (.vcf file) or Excel (.csv file) format. vCard is a common format for transporting address information between applications. Excel format consists of comma, tab, or semicolon delimited data.
Importing personal addresses using vCard format
To import personal addresses:
1 Export the data from the other application as a .vcf file.
2 Choose File > Import > Import Personal Contacts in FirstClass.
If you want to import to a public contact database, open the contact database first. Otherwise, the personal addresses are created in your Contacts folder.
3 Select the .vcf file.
To import a .vcf file that is attached to a message, select it, then choose Collaborate > Add to Contacts Folder. The personal addresses are added to your Contacts folder.
Importing personal addresses using Excel format
To import personal addresses:
1 Prepare the data for importing.
Open the address book in the other application, then save the fields you want to export as a comma, tab, or semicolon delimited text file with an extension of .csv. If the other application can't save the data in this format, try importing the data into a spreadsheet program and saving it from there.
2 Choose File > Import > Import Personal Contacts in FirstClass.
If you want to import to a public contact database, open the contact database first. Otherwise, the personal addresses are created in your Contacts folder.
3 Select the .csv file.
FirstClass displays the fields in the file, and the FirstClass fields to which they will map.
4 Change field mappings, if required, by choosing new FirstClass fields from the dropdown fields.
To import a .csv file that is attached to a message, select it, then choose Collaborate > Add to Contacts Folder. The personal addresses are added to your Contacts folder.
Exporting personal addresses
To export personal addresses:
1 Select the Contacts folder or a contact database.
If you want to export only certain addresses, open the Contacts folder or contact database and select them.
2 Choose File > Export.
3 Select "Export personal addresses".
4 Select the export format you want at "Personal address export format":
• vCard
• For Use with Outlook - exports only the information of use to Outlook in Excel format
• For use with BlackBerry - exports only the information of use to BlackBerry in Excel format
• For use with FirstClass - exports all information in Excel format.
5 Select the location where you want the file to be saved.
6 Rename the file, if desired.
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