Contacts/Address Book

If you saved your address book from Windows, you can now import your contacts into Evolution. The following instructions assume that you are importing the address book from Microsoft Outlook Express 6 or Microsoft Outlook 2002:

  1. Start Applications → Internet → Evolution Mail.

  2. Press File → Import... to start the Evolution Import Assistant. Then, press Forward.

  3. Select Import a single file and then press Forward.

  4. Press Browse..., locate the file which you saved your address book into and select it. Press Open.

  5. From File type, select VCard (.vcf, .gcrd) or Outlook CSV or Tab (.csv, .tab), depending on which format you saved your address book into. Press Forward.

  6. Choose a location in which to save the contacts, such as On This Computer → Personal. Press Forward.

  7. Press Import to import the contacts into Evolution. The imported contacts should be immediately available once the import process has completed.