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This one was easy as pie. I wanted to convert all my Outlook contacts to vCards, so that I could import them into Address Book, but also to back them up in a non-proprietary format. Outlook doesn't seem to have a menu option to batch convert contacts to vCards, but it is possible to tell Outlook to do just that. I've used vCard as the standard format for exchanging contacts for a few years, so I already knew this trick for multiple contacts, and it works perfectly for all of them at once too.

• Go to your Outlook contacts, and select them all (select one, press Ctrl-A).
• Click Actions -> Forward as vCard.
• Depending on how many contacts you have, Outlook might be busy for a while. Eventually, you'll end up with a new e-mail message with all your precious contacts included as vCards.
• In the menu of the e-mail message, click File -> Save attachments. Select a folder, and save.
• Congratulations, you've just saved all your Outlook contacts as vCards, using only Outlook. You can discard the message, or send it to an e-mail account as a backup (I mailed mine to my Gmail account).

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