Using External Contact Lists Everyone has had contacts in the past. You have met people and established relationships. You wish to continue to work with those individuals and therefore should have them in your contact list. You may also be involved in a new task and a list of names has been provided to you. No, import the file given you.
Chances are that it is a spreadsheet, text file or an export file from some other messaging system.
Outlook has a wizard to help you through this process. Click Browse and find the file, click OK once you have selected the file and click Next . Select Contacts as the destination folder and click Next . Select the check box to the left of the import description and click Map Custom Fields . Drag Andrew onto the First Name .