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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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 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. | |
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. | |
Automatically sync Office 365 Global Address Lists, shared calendars, and Public Folder contacts and calendars, and CRM contacts from Outlook to business smartphones. CiraSync is a secure, Azure-based SaaS platform that is centrally managed, requires no installation, minimal user training, and can scale to thousands of business smartphones. Try the always fee Personal Edition, or a 30-day, 100-user trial for the Enterprise Edition (no credit card/contract needed). | |
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. | |
Automatically sync Office 365 Global Address Lists from Outlook to business smartphones in minutes. Always synced. Anytime. Anywhere. CiraSync is a secure, Azure-based SaaS platform. Centrally managed, requires no software to install, no user training, and can scale to thousands of business smartphones. Try the always free Personal Edition or a free 30-day, 100-user trial for the Enterprise Edition (no credit card/contract needed). | |
Easily update many contacts, appointments or tasks with this handy tool. Perfect for updating contacts after an area code split, or companies change names, even when a group of tasks must have all their due dates updated. | |
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. | |
Automatically sync Office 365 Public Folders contacts and calendars from Outlook to business smartphones. CiraSync is a secure, Azure-based SaaS platform that is centrally managed, requires no software to install, no user training, and can scale to thousands of business smartphones. Try the always free Personal Edition, or a free 30-day, 100-user trial for the Enterprise Edition (no credit card/contract needed). | |
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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Capture name, address and other contact's details automatically and insert into Microsoft Outlook contact in two simple steps from e-mail signatures, Outlook items, a web page or a document and automatically create a Contact. Highlight the contact information (signatures) found in open e-mails, preview panes, websites, and programs. Capture name and address into Microsoft Outlook address book automatically. | |
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. | |
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. | |
Converts text in virtually any Windows application into Outlook contacts, appointments, tasks, or notes. Copies text to create an entire contact or appointment at once, without retyping. It works from email signatures, web search results, documents, resumes, and any other source of contact or event information. | |
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. | |
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) | |
Monitors bounced messages to notify you which contact may need updating. For Outlook 2000 or later. | |
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. | |
Create Outlook contacts (or entries in several other applications) from address lists in web pages. | |
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 | |
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 that generates 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. | |
Learn how to convert excel to vCard with the help of SysInfo excel to vCard converter. Using this utility, users can easily convert excel contacts to vCard file format, the software comes with easy to use Graphical user interface. Microsoft Excel to vCard Converter exports excel to vCard and various other Excel file formats XLSX, XLS, XLSM, XLSB, XLTX, XLTM, XLT, XLAM, XLA. |
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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
How do I get the standard outlook contact form instead of the new "people" box. I know I can click the 3 dots and select "edit outlook contact", but how do I make that the default behavior?
See https://www.slipstick.com/outlook/use-outlooks-contacts-contact-cards/ - you want to use the 'legacy GAL' key you use contacts, not the contact cards.
Hi Diane,
I am currently working on a contact list within Outlook 2010 with a little over 5000 contacts that belongs to my boss. I exported the contacts to an excel spreadsheet and there are a few fields that I find in the excel spreadsheet, but not in Outlook. Those fields are HomeStreet2, HomeStreet3, BusinessStreet2, BusinessStreet3, OtherStreet2 and OtherStreet3. I have searched all over Outlook and the internet for information on what these fields mean, but I have found nothing conclusive. Could you please explain where these fields are in Outlook and how to input information within those fields in Outlook 2010? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
They are parts of addresses you'd find in a multi-line mailing address - I know the fields exist in field mapping when you export but they aren't in Field chooser.