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Outlook Express question


Posted on: Sat, 05/03/2008 - 2:15pm
Outlook Express question

Question for all your super helpful computer-savy people!

I've just imported tons and tons of old emails that I had saved on cds to my new pc with Outlook Express. Unfortunately though, I hadn't saved the addresses in the address book and now it's empty. Is there a way to copy all of the contacts to the address book directly from the messages?? (possibly not having to go through each of them separately since I have thousands.. lol) Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!! Laughing out loud


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Posted on: Tue, 06/10/2008 - 1:01pm #1
Re: Outlook Express question

It may be possible to use VBA to write a macro that will scan your inbox and automatically add address to your contact list. Can't make any promises since I haven't used VBA for Outlook. But I took a quick look and I think it may be possible.

Since you posted this over a month ago I'm not going to spend much time on it for now. I figure there's a good chance you've already figured out a solution or you just did it the long way one at a time. However if you haven't and would still like help let me know. I'm more then willing to see if I can't figure out the code to make the computer do it for you. 

Posted on: Sun, 05/04/2008 - 6:16am #2
Re: Outlook Express question

Thousands??  Ewww.   I think you are going to have to Import them, right click, "Add to Sender to Address Book" on each one.  If you find something, let me know.