Import Contacts from Excel to Office 365 – Ultimate Solution

Contacts stores very crucial information and users opt for MS Excel to store large no of contacts and to modify them in a trouble-free manner. But the times come when they want to contact people by email and other ways. They have to access MS Excel every time and it is quite difficult to manage. Therefore multiple users will be seeking a method to import contacts from Excel to Office 365 so that they can easily able to send share information to every user in a tremendous way.

Ways to Transfer Contacts from MS Excel to Office 365

However, we have two solutions to import contacts from Excel to Office 365 both are explained in this write-up. If you have the excel file containing multiple contacts then we advised you to opt for the Automated Solution because the manual method is not capable to transfer multiple contacts and the user might have the risk of losing the whole contact list.

Import Contacts from Excel to Office 365 Manually

In this method, we will instruct you on the step-by-step procedure to transfer excel contacts to Office 365. To execute this task you only need to convert Excel to CSV file format then one can easily import the CSV file to MS Outlook and then configure MS Outlook with Office 365.

• Launch MS Excel and navigate your contact file
• Go to the File menu, click on the Save As an option
• Browse the destination location for your resultant file
• Then from the Save As type select the CSV file format
• A message will be displayed on your screen, you only need to accept them accordingly
• Hit the Yes button to start the process

Wait till the process is completed. Then move to the destination folder and access your CSV file and then follow the further steps to complete the conversion process.

Import CSV file to Outlook

• Launch Outlook and move to the Open & Export button
• Hit the Import/ Export button
• Choose Import from Another Program or file
• Navigate the destination folder for your resultant file
• Then the CSV file will appear on your screen select it and click on the Finish button

Once the software completes the importing process then open MS Outlook and accesses the imported contacts and configure Office 365 account to MS Outlook. This is how one can import contacts from Excel to Office 365.

Note: The above method has many limitations like this process doesn’t support bulk conversion. This method also lacks to maintain data consistency and the user always needs to follow every step very accurately. While conversion there is a very high risk of data loss and data corruption. So in the upcoming session, we will discuss the best third-party tool that instructs you to import excel contacts directly to Office 365 in a trouble-free manner.

Automated Solution to Import Contacts from Excel to Office 365

• Download and open Excel to Outlook Converter Tool

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• • Add the CSV file using the browse button from the tool

• Then, preview all the Excel file content before the final conversion

• Map the attributes as required

• Click on the Convert button to initiate the process

 

Wait till the software completes the process automatically. This tool enables the user to import contacts in bulk from excel and it is very easy to use. The tool directly imports the Excel contacts into your MS Outlook account now read the upcoming section to configure the MS Outlook account to Office 365.

Connect Office 365 to MS Outlook

• Open MS Outlook on your PC
• Navigate to the File menu then hit the Add account button
• Now, enter the account details into the panel
• Hit the Connect button to begin

This is how one can easily connect Office 365 account to MS Outlook. By using this automated solution one can import contacts from MS Excel to Office 365 in a trouble-free manner.

Summing Up

Many users are searching for a method to import Contacts from Excel to Office 365 but unable to find the convenient solution by their searches. Therefore, this article will let you know both the methods manual and the automated and also describe the best way to overcome the consequence of the manual method by using the automated tool. The software is truly tested by our experts and has so many additional features like the tool support the bulk conversion and instruct you in various ways. One can also download the demo version of this tool to experience the working of this tool.