How to Import a VCF Contact Card into an Email App That Doesn’t Support vCard Files

Many of us have multiple email accounts that we use for work and personal emails. Within those email accounts, we then have our contact lists. Plus, we have contacts on our smartphone as well. With all these accounts and their related contacts, it can be difficult to have one list with all your contacts that is accessible from all your email accounts.

Then from time to time, someone will send you their contact information so you can add it to your list of contacts. The problem is that these contact cards can be in different formats depending on what email program they were exported from. One of the most common types of contact cards are vCards that use the .vcf file type. They are typically used in email applications such as Microsoft Outlook and Gmail.

If you are a Microsoft Outlook user, then it’s fairly easy to import a VCF contact card into Outlook. But if you use another application such as the Outlook for Windows app that replaced Windows Mail, you will find that it doesn’t support importing vCards. In this article, we will be showing you how to import a VCF contact card into an email app that doesn’t support vCard files.

To import your VCF contact card into another email app that doesn’t support vCard files, you will first need to convert it to a format that the other email app supports. Most of these email programs will support importing contacts as CSV (comma separated values) files.

The first step involves importing the VCF file into your Windows contacts. To do this, you will need to open File Explorer and navigate to your Contacts folder which is located under C:\Users\username\Contacts where username is the name of the user account you are logged in with.

Once you navigate to your Contacts folder, you may or may not see other contact files there. To import your VCF file into your Contacts, click on the Import button in the toolbar.

For the file type to import, choose the vCard (VCF file) option and click on the Import button.

Then browse to the location where you have your VCF file stored on your computer and then click the Open button.

Your VCF file will then be imported and opened so you can view the details of the contact card and make any changes if desired.

Now you will have this new contact shown with any other contacts in that folder.

To export your contact to a CSV file, you will need to click on the Export button.

This time, you will need to choose the CSV (Comma Separated Values) option and then click the Export button.

You can then type in a name for your CSV file and choose a location where to save it.

You can then select or any additional fields you want to have exported or remove any you do not need to have exported. Then you can click the Finish button to complete the export process.

One thing you will notice is that Windows will export all the contacts within your Contacts folder to the CSV file. If this is the case, you can either remove them by editing your CSV file or temporarily moving the other contact files from the Contacts folder to a different folder and then put them back when you have exported the contact or contacts you need. Just be sure to move the contact files rather than delete them, unless of course you want to delete them.

The process for importing your CSV file will vary depending on what email application you are trying to import it into. You should be able to find an import option when you go to the contacts section of your email client. Then you can simply browse to the location of your CSV file and have it imported.

Then when you go to you contacts, you should see your imported contact there that was originally taken from a vCard file.

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