Export Outlook Contacts to Yahoo in the Most Proficient Way

Many times we all have faced problems when we have to export Outlook contacts to Yahoo. All the efforts go in vain when after spending hours and hours surfing the internet and still not able to find the optimum solution for importing contacts to Yahoo from Outlook. Don’t worry anymore, in this blog you will get a powerful method to move Outlook contacts to Yahoo.

If you want to backup your Outlook Contacts to any cloud service, the best suggestion would be Yahoo mail. Let’s take a look at why we are focusing on Yahoo mail.

Reasons to Export Outlook Contacts to Yahoo

The first question which arises in our mind, why we are emphasizing on Yahoo email service, as we have many other email clients. Below mentioned are some of the reasons which make Yahoo mail different from other email service providers like Gmail, etc.

• Yahoo is more reliable as the contacts will get saved on the cloud server and not on the user’s end.
• You can easily access your contacts whenever you want
• The contacts will never get lost
• Yahoo mail is a free service
• No limitation on the file size (1 TB storage)

Need to Export Outlook Contacts to Yahoo

Now to understand the problem better, we take a look at the user query.

“I have Outlook 2016 on my PC and I cannot carry it everywhere. Can anyone suggest me a better way to store my Outlook address book which I can access from anywhere.”

“My windows got crashed last month and I was not able to access some of my important contact list which was saved in the Outlook account. Now, I need a reliable way to store my contact which I can access from anywhere. Can anyone suggest me any technique?”

Is your scenario similar to the above? No issues anymore! Downside, we have covered an eminent solution to get all your contacts in Outlook moved to the Yahoo Mail account.

Best Solution to Transfer Outlook Contacts to Yahoo

A top solution with utmost simplicity to execute the export of Outlook contacts to Yahoo is stepped below. Follow it thoroughly to import all contacts to Yahoo from the Outlook account.

Steps to Sync Outlook Contacts to Yahoo Mail

Step 1: Access the Yahoo Mail account.

Step 2: Click on the Settings option and select the More Settings option.

Step 3: Move to the Contacts tab and select the Import option.

Step 4: Enter Outlook credentials and click on Allow option to grant access to sync Outlook contacts to Yahoo.

This will start importing the contacts from Outlook.com to Yahoo Mail. It is very easy to execute and all the Outlook contacts are synced to Yahoo.

Related Article: Add Yahoo Mail to Outlook

Yahoo once had the option to import contacts from a CSV file. With the latest up-gradation in Yahoo mail, this option is removed. You can check the below method with your traditional using process for Migrating OUTLOOK CONTACTS to YAHOO. If it’s the same, please, move to the other method shown above.

Step1: Exporting Outlook Contacts to CSV
1. Open your Outlook Account and Go to the File menu.
2. In the File menu, click on the Import and Export Wizard.

3. Choose Export to a File Option, then choose Next.

4. Now select Comma Separated Values and again click on Next.

5. Specify the name of the Folder where you want to store your Outlook contacts temporarily.

6. After that click on the Finish button.

Step 2 Importing CSV to Yahoo

1.Open your Yahoo account with credentials.
2.Navigate to the Contacts option.
3. Select the Import option.

4. Click on File Upload.

5. Browse your contact file which you want to export to Yahoo mail.

6. Finally, click on Import.

Find How to Connect Yahoo Mail to Outlook

Now, you can see your Outlook contacts into Yahoo Mail. The contact information can mismatch while importing contacts to Yahoo from Outlook.

Conclusion

The above blog thoroughly describes the method to export Outlook contacts to Yahoo completely. As we have there is the manual as well as an automated solution to transfer contacts from Outlook to Yahoo. But there are many drawbacks to the manual solution, so it is highly recommended to use the automated solution as it is more reliable.