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Contacts
You can save information about people, such as title, addresses, birthdays, and more. You can also do things such as create groups to use as mailing lists, or print contacts as labels.
Other things you can do with Contacts
You can do many things with contacts, such as print them as labels or synchronize with iNotes and mobile devices.
Importing contacts from other sources
If you have contacts from other sources, you can import those contacts into your IBM® Notes® contacts.

Contacts
You can save information about people, such as title, addresses, birthdays, and more. You can also do things such as create groups to use as mailing lists, or print contacts as labels.
- Getting started with Contacts
  You can save important information about people, such as mailing addresses, birthdays, and companies. You can import contacts from other programs, and more.
- Contacts quick reference
  This quick reference includes a screen image explaining the basics in Contacts, as well as tables listing other commonly-used tasks and shortcuts.
- Personalizing your Contacts settings
  You can change the look of your contacts.
- Contacts access and delegation
  You can give someone access to view or edit your Contacts, or you can open other people's Contacts if they have given you access.
- Other things you can do with Contacts
  You can do many things with contacts, such as print them as labels or synchronize with iNotes and mobile devices.
  - Synchronizing contacts with iNotes and mobile devices
    You can synchronize contacts with iNotes and mobile devices, so you have the same contacts in both places.
  - Adding or updating contacts from an email, meeting invitation, or to do item
    You can add a new contact from an email, meeting invitation, or to do item you receive. If you receive mail from an existing contact who has a new email address, you can also update the existing contact record.
  - Sending someone a contact or group
    You can send a contact or group entry to another user. Note, however, that IBM® Notes® email addresses (for example, Jane Q Public/Acme/Sales) are useful only if the recipient uses Notes Mail.
  - Creating a group from an email
    You can create a group entry from a message, meeting invitation, or to do item that you receive.
  - Showing or hiding group members' names when sending an email
    If you address a message to a group in your contact list, you can prevent or allow recipients to see the members of the group in the message.
  - Printing contacts
    You can print out your contacts as labels, print a contact entry to see all of the information about a contact or a group, or print the contact information as it appears in a view.
  - Importing contacts from other sources
    If you have contacts from other sources, you can import those contacts into your IBM® Notes® contacts.
  - Exporting contacts
    You can export contacts from Notes and import them into other programs.
- Troubleshooting Contacts
  You can get help solving problems in Contacts.

Importing contacts from other sources

If you have contacts from other sources, you can import those contacts into your IBM® Notes® contacts.

About this task

Note: If you want to convert Microsoft® Exchange, Microsoft® Mail, or Outlook Express mail messages or contact entries to IBM® Notes®, ask your Domino® administrator for assistance. You may already have the migration tools for these products installed, and your administrator can help you use them.

Procedure

Using instructions from the other source, export contacts from that source to a file on your computer. For best results, use vCard (.vcf) as the file type.
Open Contacts.
Click File > Import Contacts.
Select one or more files to import, and then click Open.
If information is not in the correct fields, click Map fields. Drag a field from the left column and drop it on the matching field in the right column. Click Apply.
Click Import.

Results

Tip: Notes Basic client users, you can drag a vCard file to your Contacts to create a new contact from it. Additionally, if you receive a vCard file as an attachment in a message, select the attachment and click View to see the list of contacts in the vCard. Then follow the steps above to save them in your Contacts.