Need to hand 300 contacts to a colleague whose CRM only imports vCard. Outlook 2013 saves vCards one contact at a time through Save As.
Clicking through 300 contacts is not happening. Any way to export them all as vcf in one go?
Export multiple vCard contacts in Outlook 2013
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Michael Scofield April 17, 2016
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Outlook has no bulk vCard export button but there is a built in trick that gets you all 300 in two minutes: forward them to yourself as business cards.
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Open the Contacts view and select all 300 with Ctrl+A, or Ctrl+click a subset.
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Right click the selection and choose Forward Contact, As a Business Card. Outlook creates one email with 300 .vcf attachments.
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Do not send it. In the draft, click one attachment, press Ctrl+A to select them all, right click and choose Save All Attachments, then pick a folder.
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Discard the draft. The folder now holds one vcf per contact for the CRM import.
If the CRM wants one combined vcf instead of 300 individual files, concatenate them: open Command Prompt in that folder and run copy *.vcf combined.vcf. vCard files are plain text so joining them this way produces a valid multi contact file most systems accept.
All 300 saved out of the draft and combined into one file with the copy command. CRM took it first try. Great trick.