[Q] How to transfer all your contacts to Windows Phone 7 ?

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So my question is how do you immediately transfer all your Outlook contacts to Windows Phone 7 on the HD2.

I currently have over 300 contacts so its not possible for me to copy all of them in the sim card.

Is it the same as connecting it to outlook and syncing. Someone please be kind enough to explain.

Thanks

use gmail as exchange mail. It is easy, simple to set up and It works really well for me

Originally Posted by tritran18518

use gmail as exchange mail. It is easy, simple to set up and It works really well for me

can you please elaborate !! as in how does gmail come into picture when we are talking outlook here !!

Originally Posted by tritran18518

use gmail as exchange mail. It is easy, simple to set up and It works really well for me

its good and **** as it can backup and restore your imp info but now I have 1000more duplicate contact and not able to remove it

Easiest way:
1. Export contacts from Outlook in cvs format.
2. Import contacts in Gmail.
3. Sync your WP7 Phone with Gmail and you are done

Originally Posted by TheOnly1

Easiest way:
1. Export contacts from Outlook in cvs format.
2. Import contacts in Gmail.
3. Sync your WP7 Phone with Gmail and you are done

ohhh k !! cool !!

It's a complete joke that you need a Google app in order to sync 2 Microsoft products.
On the bright side of life: If you then go to Android then all your contacts will be already waiting for you
It's funny that WP7 syncs everything with Google...even the calender so Gmail is also a way to export all your appointments from Outlook to WP7

Originally Posted by TheOnly1

It's a complete joke that you need a Google app in order to sync 2 Microsoft products.
On the bright side of life: If you then go to Android then all your contacts will be already waiting for you
It's funny that WP7 syncs everything with Google...even the calender so Gmail is also a way to export all your appointments from Outlook to WP7

True, but windows live is what they expect you to have all your contacts info under, which I find wierd considering it's only really been used for this now, so be wary when adding your live account, as all your email contacts will be visible and you can't do anything about it, delete them from the phone, they'll delete from your email account so be CAREFUL!!!

To get around this as mentioned in a previous thread somewhere in the HD7 forum, I created a new live account, made that the default when signing into windows live and entering my key, then added an email account which was my main hotmail, this only syncs emails, nothing else, hope this helps prevent problems!!!!

Been trying to get my contacts from my android phone to new 7.5 wp for 2 days now and it seems there is nothing such as a "phone book" in WP7.5 only social networking sites or email accounts to "SYNC" with..??

No such thing as a simple transfer... What happened to user friendly?

What if you do not want your phone book spread all over the internet??... ie: just have them on your phone to use as intended?

Some of us are not teenagers whose life revolves around Facebook, Twitter and buying music online. Microsoft appears to be totally ignorant of this?

A great phone OS overtaken with marketing traps and complicated ideology.

I myself did not use gmail (google).

Before I flashed I did a sync with Outlook 2007 ( made sure all phone contacts were in address book)

Then I exported address book out of Outlook ( saved as .csv file).

I went over to Hotmail and imported the .csv file, cleaned up any double entry in the Hotmail address book.

Flashed my phone to WP7 and all my contacts were back in my phone after first sync with Hotmail.

Now I assume live.com is the same as hotmail.com, and the options will be available to import a file from your pc into your address book.

Yes it's a small pain ( 10 min in all on my part), but going forward I will now always have my contacts backed up in Hotmail