Hotmail

Import contacts to Outlook.com

Unanswered 0 answers

Archived post from August 13, 2013. Product: Hotmail – no longer developed by its maker. Details may be out of date.

Question asked on Aug 13, 2013

Hello I am trying to import all my contacts to outlook.com. There are thousands, gathered over the years. I have them in various formats, all consolidated into one csv file I am trying to import. I exported a file from outlook.com so I got the field headings, put these into my csv file and I have tested with a file containing a couple of contacts and it works fine. When I do it with the big file I get the following error message:-

 

Phone numbers and websites can only contain English characters (a-z or A-Z), numbers (0-9), and specific symbols (such as @). Please try again.

 

I can't find anywhere that tells me exactly what characters it allows and which throw an exception. I have numbers with all kinds of formats - +1, +(1), +1-555-5555 etc etc.   The "such as" is not very helpful. Before I spend more hours on trial and error, does anyone know exactly what outlook.com will accept and what it won't ? Thanks very much

No answers yet

Write an answer

Your email address will not be published. Please never post passwords.

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.