How to Combine all Outlook Contacts into Single VCF File?

Summary: Here in this article, we are going to discuss the most searched query to combine all Outlook contacts into single VCF file. Most of the users are stuck in the same scenarios, we are here with the best solution to combine your Outlook contacts into one file. You will get an automated and the free solution, select the procedure as per your need. 

Microsoft Outlook has certain limitations, that it is not able to combine all Outlook contacts into single VCF file format at one. In Outlook you need to save PST contacts one by one using Save as an option. Moreover, there is another method available that will let you convert multiple Outlook contacts into vCard. Still, those methods further have the limitation that all the contacts get saved as multiple vCard, not in a single card. 

Therefore, in this write-up, we have come up with a solution on how to combine all Outlook contacts into a single VCF  file.

How to Export Multiple Outlook Contacts to Single VCF File-Manually

As we said above you can save Outlook contacts individually in VCF format using Outlook. But Outlook does not provide any techniques to merge all contacts in a single vCard.  So, in this section, we are going to discuss a free manual technique that will allow you to combine all Outlook contacts into single VCF file. 

To export multiple Outlook contacts into a single VCF file format we are going to use the Gmail account and the whole manual process will be completed in two steps. In this first step, we will convert Outlook contacts into CSV and in the second we will convert exported CSV contacts file into CSV file format using Gmail. 

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 Step 1 Export Outlook Contacts in CSV file format

• First, open your Microsoft Outlook on your computer.
• Click on the File option from the menu bar.
• After that, click on the Open & Export option.
• Now, go for the Import/Export Wizard option.
• After that, click on the Export to a file option.
• Now, select the Comma Separated Value option.
• Select the PST contacts file from the folder list.
• After selecting the PST file now, select the destination location to save the file.
• Click on the Finish button to start the process.

Step #2 Convert CSV Contacts to Single vCard.

• Open any internet browser and log in to the Gmail account with valid login credentials.
• Click on the Gmail option from the left upper corner and select the contacts option.
• Select more options and choose the import option from the dropdown list.
• After that, the import contact dialogue box will appear on your screen.
• Choose the CSV file that you have exported from MS Outlook.
• Now click on the import button.
• Once the contacts are imported to Gmail, select the All contacts option from the above dropdown list.
• After that, click on the More option and choose Export from the dropdown menu.
• Choose the Selected Contacts option then select the vCard format option from the Export Contacts dialogue box.
• Now, click on the Export button to start the process to convert multiple Outlook contacts into VCF file format.
• After completing the process, click on the Save File option to combine all contacts into a single VCF file.
• Now you can view the .vcf file in the download folder.

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Commercial Solution to Combine all Outlook Contacts into Single VCF File

The manual method contains countless amount of steps. That makes this easy process very time-consuming and complicated. Also, there is no surety that this technique will effectively complete the process of merging all Outlook contacts in a single vCard without any data loss.

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Therefore, most professionals do not recommend this method. So in this troublesome situation, try an automated solution to export Outlook Address Book as vCard. vCard Split & Merge Tool comes with the separate option to combine all Outlook contacts into a single VCF file and gives surety of no data loss during the process, 

Here are the working steps of the tool

• Install and Run the software into your system. 

• Go to the Add File button on your left at the corner. 

• In this step, select the Browse option to select the files which you want to combine.

• Click the Export button and your files get loaded. 

• Now, select the merge vCard option to combine the VCF files. 

• In the last step, click the  Export option at the bottom of your screen. 

Conclusion

If you want to merge all your Outlook contacts in a single place, then vCard is one of the best formats for combining all PST contacts. Hence, here in this article has discussed manual as well as automated techniques that will surely help you in order to combine all Outlook contacts into single VCF file.