Creating Batch Files from Email Contact CSV Files

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This topic explains how you can create a batch file from a CSV file that contains email contacts. After you create a batch file for your email contacts from the CSV file, you will run the batch file to create a folder for each of the client contacts in the CSV file.

Note: For more information about creating a CSV file that contains email contacts, see “Exporting Email Contacts to CSV Files” . For more information about running a batch file to create client folders for email contacts, see “Running Batch Files to Create Client Folders from Email Contacts” .

To create a batch file from an email contact CSV file:

1. In the C:\MyContacts folder, create a subfolder called Clients.

Note: For more information about creating the MyContacts folder, see “Exporting Email Contacts to CSV Files” .

2. Open Windows Notepad, a free Microsoft utility that comes with Microsoft Windows, by completing the following steps:

a. On your local computer, click Start.

b. In the Search field displayed immediately above the Start button, type Notepad.

c. In the list of search results, click Notepad.

3. Copy the contents of column G in the MyContacts.csv file into Notepad.

4. Save the Notepad file with a .bat extension by completing the following steps:

d. On the File menu, click Save As.

a. Browse to and select the C:\MyContacts\Clients folder.

b. In the File name field, type MyContacts.bat, and then click Save.

After creating the batch file, run the batch file to create a client folder for each client contact. For more information, see “Running Batch Files to Create Client Folders from Email Contacts” .