This is a collection of tools for the Microsoft Outlook Contacts folder which don't fit in any of the following categories:
Several other kinds of tools related to contacts are listed on their own pages:
- Contact Management Tools
- Telephony Tools — including utilities to copy contacts to mobile phones and to use contacts with Caller ID
- Print Labels and Envelopes for Contacts
- Start a Letter from an Outlook Contact
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Tools in the Spotlight
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. | |
The most frequent problem with contacts is how to set the File As order on existing contacts after you have set the order in your Outlook preferences. Now you can stay organized by updating all your existing contacts and address books with either 'last name, first name' order or 'first name, last name' order. This add-in automates what is otherwise a tedious, time consuming process. Free. Enter code WD9BHK53 during checkout. | |
Outlook COM add-in that enables you to receive reminders from any mail, calendar, contacts, or tasks folder in your default information store (Exchange mailbox or Personal Folders file) except the Outbox. | |
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. | |
Turns journaling on or off for all contacts within a folder with one click. Also allows you to turn journaling on or off for individual contacts within subfolders. Enter code WD9BHK53 during checkout. |
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Active Directory Contact Import Tool. Import, modify or delete Active Directory Contacts in bulk, mail-enable contacts on import. Can be automated to keep Contacts up to date. | |
Alphabet4Contacts toolbar displays an English alphabet tab in both Address and Phone List Views. The software provides access to contacts through sorting and filtering them by a selected first letter. It’s not just replacing the standard Contacts Index, its a one-click filter providing pre-sorted, filtered, and easily accessible contacts. Sort by contact name, last name, company name, etc. | |
CCS Service Request provides a central point for tracking and managing service requests for departments such as HR, IT, Facilities, Sales and Marketing. Tickets are submitted from an Outlook form, email or web page. The ticket is routed to the department providing the service. Department staff is assigned the request. Includes full reporting, knowledge base and flexible forms. Easy to install, run. | |
Integration of Google Voice and Microsoft Outlook enables you to call, schedule auto-calls, text, conference call, broadcast text, play voicemails and transfer files in Microsoft Outlook. Free trial. | |
ContactGenie DataPort, contact import/export for Microsoft Outlook 2000/2010. Full support for custom forms/fields in PST, Exchange Mailbox, or Exchange public folders. Ability to either add only or update pre-existing contacts using one or more user-selected fields as update keys. Export from Exchange GAL and Global Distribution Groups. Standardize primary field formats. Save unlimited import/export criteria templates for repeated use. Command line support for unattended operation. Native MS SQL support. (Previous Standard/Advanced editions combined into one as of v3.3) | |
Export contact folders, Exchange GAL, and Global Distribution groups. Premium Edition supports database updating. Can be run in a scheduled un-attended mode for repetitive requirements. | |
ContactGenie MultiPort, import/export for Microsoft Outlook 2000/2010. Full support for custom forms/fields in PST, Exchange Mailbox, or Exchange public folders. Import to/Export from multiple Exch User default contact folders. Import/Export from Exch GAL and Global Dist Group members. Ability to either add only or update pre-existing contacts using one or more user-selected fields as update keys. Save unlimited import/export criteria templates for repeated use. Command line support for unattended operation. Native MS SQL Support. (Free upgrade for DataPort 3.0 registered users) | |
ContactGenie QuickPort, contact import/export tool for Microsoft Outlook 2000/2010. Provides full support for custom forms/fields in PST, Exchange Mailbox, or Exchange public folders. Ability to either add only or update pre-existing contacts using one or more user-selected fields as update keys. Export from Exchange GAL and Global Distribution Groups. Standardize primary field formats such as FileAs, EmailDisplayName and FullName. Save last import/export criteria for repeated use with command line support. | |
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. | |
Outlook 2007 has 65 usable fields for contacts. This utility captures all of them and presents them to you in a easy to read Access database. The information in Outlook is not altered at any time and the information presented in our application is read only. All contact additions and editing take place in Outlook. The user can refresh the database at any time. | |
Use CustomDays to display a person's age on their birthday or year on anniversaries. The display can be changed individually using placeholders. You can also use this tool to delete birthday entries that are not associated with a contact. Automatically send a birthday email, or completely prevent the entry of birthdays in the calendar. Also available separately as CustomBirthday and CustomAnniversary. | |
Davton CRM is a Customer Relationship Management system built in to Microsoft Outlook. It uses Microsoft Exchange Public Folders to store and share information. It incorporates and enhances all the features in Outlook which your team already use, so getting your team to use it will be straight forward. Features include: * Create Marketing Campaigns and Calling Lists * Project linking for Architects and other project oriented organisations * One click email processing and linking | |
Dawn will convert your address book from one program's format to another. If you have ever wanted to switch E-Mail programs, a complete conversion is just a few clicks away. Power users will like the ability to see edit and delete parts of the data before saving it as well as support for common file formats. Freeware. Version 5.4 | |
Deploy vCards for all users in Active Directory. Easily integrate vCards with email signatures. Simple deployment mechanism for any number of users. Stay current with all Outlook contacts. Free trial. | |
Design and print envelopes, labels, and other mailings with postage included, using contact data from Outlook. | |
Envelopes for Outlook is an add-in that places a button on each MS Outlook contact toolbar for simple one click envelope printing. All versions of Outlook from 2000 to 2007 are supported. POSTNET barcodes and logo printing supported. | |
Realtors can use EurekaWare to handle contact and lead management, client follow-up, prospecting, marketing management, activity scheduling, mailing management, mass e-mailing, call management, and more. | |
Excel to Outlook is an Excel to Outlook Contact converter tool that exports data from each excel fields to similar Outlook attributes. | |
Find Contacts provides an AutoText like interface to Contact information that you have stored in Outlook and Exchange making it easy to insert an address into any document. It can search not only your own contacts but also another person’s contacts folder and a workgroup public folder of contacts if you have Exchange Server installed. Searching can be done by Contact name, Company name or Category. Versions available for Outlook and Exchange Lotus Notes, InterAction, TimeMatters, PCLaw, Act and Apex. | |
Provides database connectivity to Outlook and Exchange, allowing easy access to contact, calendar and customer information stored in your database. Tasks can also be created in Outlook based on events in your database. Ability to Synchronize both ways means information can be updated or backed-up quickly. Offers complete flexibility by allowing connectivity to any standard database through ODBC. | |
Add dynamic profiles for everyone in your inbox and calendar. Get updates about all of your contacts inside Outlook and spend less time looking for information and more time acting on it. Search and find contacts from everywhere, even if they're not Outlook contacts. | |
IMI Contacts Exporter is an utility specially designed for Microsoft Outlook users to export Contacts Items from any Microsoft Office Outlook and/or Microsoft Exchange Public Contacts Folder (or private Mailbox folder). - Obtain information for Contact items from any Public Contacts folder in Microsoft Exchange Server 5.x/2000/2003/2007/2010 - You can restrict exported items (add filter) for lots of Contacts fields. - Export to CSV, HTML, SQL, XML, Microsoft Office Access, Microsoft Office Excel. | |
Use LinkPoint Vue to view Contact information from your CRM in your Outlook for each recipient of an email. View Opportunities, Cases, Notes, Tasks and Events from your CRM. View, Edit, or Create a new Account, Contact, Lead, Opportunity, or Case directly from LinkPoint Vue. Click-to-dial a phone number using VoIP telephones like Skype or Vonage. View other data besides your CRM data – like Social Networks, data aggregators and soon internal corporate systems. Get maps and directions to the contact’s address with just a click. | |
Automatically looks up Outlook contact information and inserts it into Word documents, including fax cover sheets and letters. | |
SysTools Notes Address Book Converter is a Lotus Notes contacts conversion utility used to export Notes contacts list to Outlook. Software quickly scans names.nsf file and converts full contact details to Outlook including all information like- Business, Personal, Briefcase, Advance etc. | |
Utility to remove corrupted entries in the nicknames list used by Outlook to resolve e-mail addresses. This is an updated version of the Wipename.exe utility that was in the Office 97 Resource Kit. Free from Microsoft. | |
OLfix combines some tools for repairing common things like the profile, contact links and features, for example calling the internal Outlook repair command line switches with a click of a button. Also some hidden settings can be set for example reminders in different folders. Free. | |
Web-based time, expense and invoice service that can import Outlook contact and appointment data that has first been exported as .csv files. Formerly TimeBills.com | |
An automated ticketing system for one-person helpdesk and issue tracking in Microsoft Outlook. Log, analyze, track and escalate support requests in an organized and structured process in Outlook. Auto-process incoming support requests and send automated notification emails or SMS alerts. Supports enforcement of SLA in line with ITIL guidelines. Integrated knowledge base, asset tracking and statistical tools. Support for Skype and Phone calls. Includes a self-service website where end-users can submit new support requests, check status, search through the knowledge base. Improves your efficiency to enable faster response time. | |
System tray add-in to quickly look up Outlook contacts, use contact data in Word letters and other documents, assign hotkeys to Outlook folders and tasks, dial contacts, and launch shortcuts. Works with Outlook 2000 through Outlook 2010 (32-bit only) and any version of Windows (32- or 64-bit). | |
Generate survey forms for paper, disk, web or e-mail delivery and link results back to Outlook contacts | |
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 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. | |
This add-in will automatically put all those anniversary's or birthday's where they belong (in the Calendar) this way you won't miss this important events. Sometimes when you import a .pst file to your Microsoft Outlook your Contacts anniversary's or birthday's don't appear in the calendar, this can also happen with synchronizations with a Pocket Pc device or Palm. | |
Reminder Manager provides reminders from any email, calendar, tasks or contacts folder in any open mail store. This allows you to set reminders on items in any folder in your mailbox or PST file, secondary PST files or public folders. Reminders can be emailed to any pager or email enabled communications device. | |
Roll-A-Desktop is a virtual contact organizer that obtains contact information from your Outlook contacts. Use it to access phone numbers, addresses, e-mails, and notes without opening Outlook. You can also edit your contacts from Roll-A-Desktop and it will update them in Outlook, real-time. With a simple double-click you can also start a new e-mail message to a contact using your default mail client or your favorite web based email. You can pull up maps to your contact and personalize your calendar by adding anniversaries and birthdays. Works like a Rolodex allowing you to scroll through contacts organized by last name. You can search, edit, copy contact info to the clipboard and print. You can also use Roll-A-Desktop to keep your Outlook data in sync on several computers. Version 5.02.0004 | |
Sync Outlook contacts on multiple PCs without Exchange server. Microsoft Outlook add-in for synchronizing and sharing Outlook contacts. Sync contacts folders, sync address book, sync distribution lists in a few clicks. Synchronize and share Outlook contacts automatically. Share different contacts folders with various groups of people, subscribe to contact folders updates. Support custom Outlook contact forms. Sync between all Outlook versions. Version 3.51 | |
ShipRush provides one click FedEx and UPS Shipping using Outlook’s contacts. Select the contact the package is shipping, then choose the shipment options and a shipping label is created automatically, with all of the fields completed. Details, including the tracking number, are stored in Outlook and easily accessed from the Contact’s Activities tab. | |
SKAIFO is an Outlook Add-In that integrates Skype functionality with Microsoft Outlook. It has full-fledged User Interface inside Outlook so there is no need to switch back and force between Outlook and Skype for your free calling needs. | |
Buy and print postage from within Outlook via the Internet. Supports USPS Express Mail, insurance, and many special mailing services. Version 6 | |
Syncfriend is a free online sync service for devices and Outlook 2007/2010. With it, you are able to keep as many PCs with Outlook in sync as you want, including a range of devices. The basic Outlook sync addin is free for up to 200 contacts. A premium version for unlimited number of contacts including calender sync will be available soon. | |
SyncWiz add-in for Microsoft Outlook is an easy to use Outlook vCard and Calendar converter. Import and export contacts and calendar into vCard, iCal, .vcf, .vcs and .ics file formats. Sync Microsoft Outlook Calendars using vCalendar and iCalendar files. Backup, synchronize and convert contacts to vCard files automatically. Supports .vcf, .vcs and .ics files in different encodings. Import and export all custom item properties correctly. Version 2.14. | |
SAM automatically sets the sender, signature, and folder for sent items based on several criteria. Use SAM to assign a sending account and signature to contacts, folders, or categories. Works with Outlook 2007, and 2010. | |
Easy to use vCard converter tool to convert vcard 2.1 and vcard 3.0 version vcards into Ms Outlook contacts. Software is a vcard reader which imports individual vcards in bulk or vcards having multiple contacts into Outlook in one go. | |
PCVITA vCard Magic is new Outlook contacts converter (vCard Import Export) utility that can not only Export Outlook contacts to vCard file format but also Import vCard to Outlook contacts folder. Start with FREE trial, export import upto 5 contacts, easy to use GUI, meta data preserved and lot more. | |
vCard splitter tool to split any vcard file having multiple contacts into it. Supports 2.1 and 3.0 versions of vcard file. | |
vCard4Outlook add-in for Microsoft Outlook is an easy to use vCard converter and .vcf converter. vCard for Outlook will import and export contacts into one or multiple .vcf files. It will convert contacts to and from .vcf and vCard files. Import vCard file format from Lotus Notes and other applications. Export Outlook contacts to vCard files. Supports .vcf files in different encodings, as well as all standard and custom vCard file specifications. Version 2.42. | |
Successfully Import .CONTACT files to Outlook and Convert Windows Contacts to Outlook by Windows Contacts Converter. Easy solution to Export .CONTACT files of Windows 7 and Windows Vista to MS Outlook | |
Xobni is the free Outlook plugin that saves you time finding email, conversations, contact info, and attachments. Get lightning-fast search and learn more about the people in Outlook through information drawn from around the web. LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Salesforce, Hoover's info, and more-all right inside Outlook. |
Code and Form Samples
Fax to Contact Form Custom Outlook form that adds a New Fax to Contact action to the menu and handles 10-digit dialing.
Holiday Card List Unsupported Microsoft sample form application.
Required Categories Contact Form Custom Outlook form that forces the user to pick from a specific list of categories, even if they are not in the Master Category List.
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Last reviewed on Apr 13, 2012
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