{"id":322,"date":"2015-06-29T06:40:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T06:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/?post_type=article&#038;p=322"},"modified":"2015-06-29T06:59:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T06:59:46","slug":"how-to-backup-outlook-2013-contacts","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/article\/how-to-backup-outlook-2013-contacts\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Backup Outlook 2013 Contacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please follow these instructions to backup your Outlook 2013 contacts to either another Outlook 2013 PST file or to a Microsoft Excel CSV file.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where are the Outlook 2013 Contacts Stored?<\/strong> \u00a0Outlook Contacts are stored in either the OST or PST file which contains all your email, contacts and calendar appointments. \u00a0To export the Outlook 2013 contacts individually we need to select the contacts folder when we perform an export from our Outlook data file.<\/p>\n<h2>Step 1. Click on File and then click on &#8220;Open &amp; Export&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Outlook-2013-Backup-Contacts-1.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-323\" data-original=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Outlook-2013-Backup-Contacts-1.png\" alt=\"Outlook-2013-Backup-Contacts-1\" width=\"623\" height=\"434\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Step 2. Click on Import \/ Export<\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Backup-Outlook-Contacts-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-324\" src=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Backup-Outlook-Contacts-2.png\" alt=\"Backup-Outlook-Contacts-2\" width=\"652\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Backup-Outlook-Contacts-2.png 652w, https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Backup-Outlook-Contacts-2-300x216.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" \/><\/a>Step 3. Click on Export to Another File<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Export-To-Another-File.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-325\" src=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Export-To-Another-File.png\" alt=\"Export-To-Another-File\" width=\"454\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Export-To-Another-File.png 454w, https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Export-To-Another-File-300x229.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Step 4. Choose The File Type<\/h2>\n<p>If you are going to be importing the file in to another Outlook Profile choose Outlook Data File (.pst) otherwise choose Comma Separated Values for a Microsoft Excel compatible file.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Export-To-PST.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-326\" src=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Export-To-PST.png\" alt=\"Export-To-PST\" width=\"458\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Export-To-PST.png 458w, https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Export-To-PST-300x229.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Step 5. Select the Contacts Folder<\/h2>\n<p>Select the contacts folder and click next<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Select-Contacts-Folder.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-327\" src=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Select-Contacts-Folder.png\" alt=\"Select-Contacts-Folder\" width=\"451\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Select-Contacts-Folder.png 451w, https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Select-Contacts-Folder-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Step 6. Save the file<\/h2>\n<p>Choose a location to save the file and then click on Finish. \u00a0This could either be on the local computer somewhere or an external hard drive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Save-Outlook-2013-Contacts-File.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-328\" src=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Save-Outlook-2013-Contacts-File.png\" alt=\"Save-Outlook-2013-Contacts-File\" width=\"452\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Save-Outlook-2013-Contacts-File.png 452w, https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Save-Outlook-2013-Contacts-File-300x226.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style='text-align:left' class='yasr-auto-insert-visitor'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please follow these instructions to backup your Outlook 2013 contacts to either another Outlook 2013 PST file or to a Microsoft Excel CSV file. Where are the Outlook 2013 Contacts Stored? \u00a0Outlook Contacts are stored in either the OST or PST file which contains all your email, contacts and calendar appointments. \u00a0To export the Outlook [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","article-category":[28],"article-tag":[301,302,303,304,308],"class_list":["post-322","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","article-category-microsoft-outlook","article-tag-backup-outlook-2013-contacts","article-tag-backup-outlook-contacts-to-excel","article-tag-backup-outlook-contacts-to-external-hard-drive","article-tag-how-to-get-contacts-from-outlook-2013","article-tag-where-are-outlook-2013-contacts"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":1,"sum_votes":5},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"article-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-tag?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}