How to transfer contacts from old to a new email account
If you are planning to change the email address but afraid to do so because all the contacts are saved on the old email account, then don’t worry we will help you transfer all the contacts from an old email account to a new account.
The contacts that we will export from the old email account and contacts that we will import in the email account will be in a ‘.csv’ format (CSV stands for “comma-separated values“) which is more like an excel file with all the Names and Numbers.
The .CSV format is universal for all the email providers, you can transfer contacts on all the email accounts.
Transfer contacts from Old Hotmail account to a new Outlook account
If you have an old Hotmail account and want to create a new Outlook.com account but don’t want to lose all the contacts that you have on the old Hotmail account then follow the steps mentioned below.
First, we will export the contacts from the old Hotmail email account, steps are mentioned below:
- Login to your Hotmail account
- Click on the nine dots on the top left corner
- Click on All apps and then People
- Click on Manage and then Export contacts
Once you click on export contacts it will ask you to save a .CSV file, that is the file that has all your contacts. Save it at a safe place.
Importing contact list to the new Outlook account
- Login to your new Outlook.com account
- Click on the nine dots on the top left corner
- Click on All apps and then People
- Click on Manage and then Import contacts
- Browse for the file location and select it.
Once you upload the .CSV file, it will extract the file and copy all the contacts in the Contact boon on your email account
If even after following these steps you are not able to transfer contacts then you can contact us by clicking on Technician Help Form
Transfer contacts from Gmail to Outlook account
From above we know how to import contacts in outlook, so here we need to find out how to export contacts from google mail or Gmail so that we can export the contacts from Gmail and import them in outlook to keep the contact list in sync.
- first, log in to your Gmail account
- Click on the nine dots on the top right corner and select Contacts
- From the list of options click on Export, to export the contacts from Gmail account
- After clicking on the Export option, it will give you the option to export as Google CSV or Outlook CSV or vCard for iOS Contacts.
- Select Outlook CSV as we have to transfer contacts from Gmail to the New Outlook account.
- Press on export and save the file on a location from where you can import the file to your Outlook.com account.
