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Putting the same contacts from laptop onto desktop

10 years ago

I'm using Win 8.1 and Microsoft Outlook 2010 (from the Office Professional Suite) on 2 computers. I have many contacts on my laptop and want to get them onto my desktop so I can use them from that computer when needed.

I can not seem to find any easy detailed instructions on how to do this. I would think that copying the contact onto a memory stick (which I did) and inserting into the USB of the desktop then somehow downloading into Outlook Contact on DT would work, but, it isn't that easy. I wonder if those contacts need to be imported to the DT from the stick, but how?

TIA.

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User
10 years ago
last modified: 10 years ago
I think you just need to do a Search for the PST File (.pst). Copy it onto your Flash Drive and then copy it from the Flash Drive back to the same location on the other computer as it was in on the first computer (replace existing file)! Below is a Picture with the Path Circled in Red and the File Highlighted in Light Blue:

Here is a link that may be of some help, it's for Outlook 2007 but I don't think it's changed much. I've been doing this for years, since Office 95 and not much has changed! Moving Outlook Contacts
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zep516
10 years ago
and just to add to that

Here's another link that may be helpful, pretty much the same, but it goes into a bit of detail about the other outlook program installed on the desktop and how to proceed with that, out lined in step 3.

"Move Outlook information to another computer that has Outlook 2010 installed"
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Move-Outlook-information-to-another-computer-that-has-Outlook-2010-installed-0309027b-4e9e-4566-b7f9-40f064fd903e?CorrelationId=97927316-059d-4bb1-8cfd-35f7fde16405&ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
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debo_2006
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10 years ago
Thanks a bunch. I'll check these out.

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