Answers.Body: <p>There is a very good explanation about importing contacts in to civicrm using csv in this chapter of the book. It doesn't matter where those contacts' data originated.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://book.civicrm.org/user/current/common-workflows/importing-data/" rel="nofollow">https://book.civicrm.org/user/current/common-workflows/importing-data/</a></p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>I'm in the process of doing this too.  What I found though is that Outlook contacts are all individuals whereas Civi contacts can be either Organisations or Individuals, so unless there is a great level of consistency with naming conventions, they won't all necessarily match up.  (Ie, contacts from the same organisation won't necessarily match up)
  I therefore created two excel spreadsheets, one with the individual contacts, and searched for similar terms to standardise the company names.  Then I created a new spreadsheet for the organisations, and have an intern populating it with central phone and email addresses (all my outlook one's were for individual people) it so I can upload it all consistently.<br>
  Not finished yet though!</p>
  
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Body: <p>Is it possible to transfer a contact list from Microsoft 365 Outlook to CiviCRM using a csv. File?</p>
  
  <p>I don't understand this formating business, it's a simple enough question. </p>
  
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Title: Can I import contacts from Outlook into CiviCRM?
ThreadText: # Can I import contacts from Outlook into CiviCRM?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-05-10)
  
  Is it possible to transfer a contact list from Microsoft 365 Outlook to CiviCRM using a csv. File?
  
  I don't understand this formating business, it's a simple enough question.
  
  **Tags:** contacts, import
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2016-05-10. Score: 2
  
  There is a very good explanation about importing contacts in to civicrm using csv in this chapter of the book. It doesn't matter where those contacts' data originated.
  
  <https://book.civicrm.org/user/current/common-workflows/importing-data/>
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2016-05-10. Score: 2
  
  I'm in the process of doing this too. What I found though is that Outlook contacts are all individuals whereas Civi contacts can be either Organisations or Individuals, so unless there is a great level of consistency with naming conventions, they won't all necessarily match up. (Ie, contacts from the same organisation won't necessarily match up)
  I therefore created two excel spreadsheets, one with the individual contacts, and searched for similar terms to standardise the company names. Then I created a new spreadsheet for the organisations, and have an intern populating it with central phone and email addresses (all my outlook one's were for individual people) it so I can upload it all consistently.  
  Not finished yet though!
  
  
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