Data Entry and Updating Tools

This is a collection of tools useful for updating your Microsoft Outlook Contacts folder. Among this list are tools that "grab" contact data from emails or web pages and create a contact for you. Others will create a contact using the senders display name and email address when you reply to email.

Like the Plaxo service, some of the add-ins will verify the email addresses in your contacts by sending out email messages to everyone in your contacts folder. If the recipient replies with updated information their contact is automatically updated. We don't recommend these services as a rule and many recipients consider this a form of spamming, especially if you use a tool that adds everyone you reply to, to your contacts folder.

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Tools in the Spotlight

Actual Contacts for Outlook	Actual Contacts for Outlook is a Microsoft Outlook add-in for validating and updating your address book. Select contacts and ACO will send them a message containing a form. E-mail addresses in your Outlook can be verified with just a few clicks.
Add Contacts	Add Contacts automatically adds e-mail addresses to the contact folder when you reply a message and/or send a new message. You can assign categories to the newly created contacts and you can choose any folder as the contact destination, either in your personal mailbox or in public folders on Microsoft Exchange server. When adding a contact, Add Contacts checks the folder for possible duplicates.
Distribution List Manager	Use Distribution List Manager to create distribution lists from many emails all at once or from a single email with a lot of addresses (or anything in between). It works with To, CC, and From recipients when adding distribution list members from emails; add to existing lists or create a new list each time you add a member. See the current count of members of your distribution lists before you add the new member and receive a warning you when you approach or exceed the Outlook distribution list limit. Enter code WD9BHK53 during checkout.
gwabbit	gwabbit is an Add-in for Microsoft Outlook and the BlackBerry that finds, gwabs and adds contacts from your emails to your Outlook address book with a single mouse click.
Mailing List Service	Adds senders of selected email messages to the Contacts folder or a separate mailing list text file. Can also export from contacts to a mailing list file. Part of the Mapilab Toolbox.
Subscription Manager	The Subscription Manager add-in (SUM) is designed to automatically add to or delete subscribers from Microsoft Outlook distribution lists based on e-mail message with the command SUM in its "Subject" field. Subscription Manager is the first mailing list management software for Microsoft Outlook. Part of the MAPILab Toolbox.

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AccuCard for Outlook	Keeps your Outlook contacts updated through a centralized database of all contacts from all AccuCard users, sending a quarterly message asking contacts to send in their updated information.
Add Email Address	Add Email Address is an Outlook add-in that puts people you reply to in Contacts. It can also scan your Inbox and create contacts out of all those email addresses. It now supports Outlook 2010, both 32-bit and 64-bit.
AddressGrabber	AddressGrabber enables easy capturing of address details from any Email, web site or document into Outlook with a click of a button and reduces data entry time. Just highlight the address and click on AddressGrabber. AddressGrabber also enables easy transfer of address details between Outlook and ACT! or Goldmine.
anagram	Converts text in virtually any Windows application into Outlook contacts, appointments, tasks, or notes.
ContactCopy	ContactCopy creates Outlook contacts from text containing contact information (like email signatures, contact data on websites, etc.) ContactCopy recognizes addresses and phone numbers from the USA and more than 20 European countries.
ContactGenie Toolkit	ContactGenie Toolkit - 28 functions for Outlook 2000-2010 enabling changes to individual standard and custom fields; standardization for Message Class, CompanyName, FileAs, EmailDisplayAs, Fullname, and other fields; contact and NK2 info export; export contacts to CSV file; global changes for CompanyName, Company Address, Email and Web addresses. Preview/override any pending changes. Add Birthday/Anniversary/user-defined dates to default calendar. Personal Distribution Group management functions and more.
ContacTree	ContacTree is a contact organizer add-in for Microsoft Outlook that automatically generates organization charts of a contact's company for easy searching and navigation. Available in versions for personal and enterprise use, ContacTree provides very simple new intuitive input forms with extensive auto-complete functions. By splitting contact data into linked levels of Contact, Contact's Manger, Organization and Location, it also becomes easy to develop and maintain records over time. Personal and Enterprise versions available.
Data Fields Manager for Outlook	Data Fields Manager for Outlook allows users to perform mass modifications to contact fields in Outlook. You can add, remove, capitalize, build, clear, paste, trim and much more with the click of a button. Now select a contact folder and then create a folder tree that uses the Categories field as the folder name. Compatible with Outlook 2000, 2002, 2003, and 2007.
Email Address Collector	Email Address Collector is an email extractor software designed to extract email addresses and contacts from the email folders of Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird and other popular email clients.
eMail-Lead Grabber	Automatically downloads emails from web forms and third party sites, processes them into Outlook and assigns follow-up whenever a lead fills up a Web Form on your web site. Send an Auto-Response Email to the incoming email and also Distribute the Lead email among your Lead Processing Team. Can also create contacts from structured text files, in addition to mail messages.(Formerly Web Response Grabber)
Emergency Preparedness Software	Emergency Preparedness Software, EPS, provides Business Continuity and sustained communications during and after a disaster. It ensures that users in an organization have up-to-date contact information available on their BlackBerry handhelds and other wireless devices that synchronize with the desktop. BlackBerry Software Trial Available.
eReturn Detective	Monitors bounced messages to notify you which contact may need updating. For Outlook 2000 or later.
LinkedIn Outlook Toolbar	Create missing contacts in your Outlook address book by using this tool to scan your email correspondence for contacts with whom you have communicated. Several options let you configure how the scan is performed and which contacts to create. Also, convert signatures in emails into Outlook contacts without re-typing. (Free)
ListGrabber	Create Outlook contacts (or entries in several other applications) from address lists in web pages.
More Productive Tools for Outlook	More Productive Tools for Outlook is an innovative tool that expands your ability to get information into and out of Outlook quickly and effectively. More Productive Tools provides you with a vast array of capabilities to make your Outlook use more productive and efficient. Supports Outlook 2000, 2002 (XP), 2003 and 2007. Currently Free. Beta
Nobex Contacts	When you receive an email with the sender's contact information in a signature block (phone, fax, web address, title, etc.), Nobex Contacts for Microsoft Outlook technology analyzes the email, finds the block, parses it, and pops up a notification to tell you it was found. You click it, and Nobex Contacts creates a new item for the sender in your Contacts address book. It shows you the contact information for verification, you click Save, and that's it. No more going back to find contact information in old emails, no more cutting and pasting contact information fields, no more typing info manually.
Outlook Company Updater	A Microsoft Outlook form to update information for all Contact records related to a particular company. Free.
Plaxo Contacts	Send and receive contact updates. If you exchange contacts with other Plaxo users, your contact records for those users stay up-to-date automatically. Free.
Pocket Contact Synchronizer	Copies items in one direction, from any contacts folder -- public or private -- into your default Contacts folder, putting the name of the original folder in the Categories field. Mainly intended for ActiveSync users who want to sync contacts from a public folder, but useful also to non-PDA users who want to see several folders' worth of contacts in their main Contacts folder. Free from Microsoft for Outlook 2000 or 2002 only, but may work with Outlook 2003.
Public Contact After Reply	Public Contact after Reply for Outlook (Public CAR) is an addin for Outlook which automatically creates an Outlook contact after you reply to an email. Free.
Public Mail2Contact	Public Mail 2 Contact is a freeware Outlook addon. It generates Outlook contacts from existing e-mails and verifies whether the e-mail-address does already exist as contact of Outlook. Adequate filters prevent Public Mail 2 Contact from creating duplicates in Outlook during the conversion. The usage of individual blacklist filters permits to exclude specific e-mail-addresses, domains or suffixes. This helps to avoid the continuous visualization of the same domains or e-mail addresses during conversion.
Relationship Secure	Request updated information from Outlook contacts and process responses automatically. Remind you about contact-related events and send email greeting cards. Keep track of contacts you haven't heard from in a while. All data is local to Outlook, with nothing stored on an external server.
Reorder Contacts Form	A Microsoft Outlook form to update Contacts records so that they display in the Address Book sorted as you choose -- by last name, first name or the FileAs field. Free
Resolve E-mail Address Utility	Resolves all e-mail addresses in Contacts to ensure that they appear in your Outlook Address Book. Use after importing from a database or .csv file. Free.
ResumeGrabber	ResumeGrabber is a resume data entry tool that intelligently extracts contact details and resume in any format and creates a new contact in Outlook and attaches the resumes to the contact.
Signature2contacts	Capture name and addresses from e-mail signatures, Outlook items, a web page or a document and automatically create a Contact. Version 1.11.2176
Updater for Outlook	Updater for Outlook allows you to perform data manipulations on any Outlook object including custom (user-defined) fields and forms and the multi-valued Keywords data type.
vReader	Use vReader to create Outlook 97 contacts from vCards.
ZoomInfo Community Edition	Run this Outlook plugin in the background and get access to the 50 million business profiles available in the ZoomInfo.com database. You will find email addresses, can create targeted lists, research prospects and more. As long as you have the plug-in installed and are actively contributing business contacts, you get full, ongoing access to the entire ZoomInfo Database.