Hi - I have had the same problem. Did you manage to resolve your issue as I
am struggling. I backed up my complete hard drive and assumed that the
contacts would be there. Problem is that I do not know where to find them
now. I hope you have had some luck.

"Tealfin" wrote:

All I did was open the inport/export wizard in outlook and exported the
contacts to a cd. Thats it. I didnt try to change the format. When I tried to
import them, that is when I realised that the were in a .txt format. Is there
any kind of conversion utility or software that i can use to get these
contacts inported back in?

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Exactly how did you "back up" your Contacts? All you needed to do is make a
copy of your Outlook data file, then open that file in the new installation.
You would never export Contacts to a different format to back them up.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Tealfin" wrote in message
...
Okay, here is my situation. My computer was very unstable for the last
few
weeks. Sudden crashes loss of work etc. As a result I had to reinstall
my
Windows XP. Before doing this I was able to back up a lot of my
information.
I backed up all of my contact information on a disk. I now have office
2007
installed and cannot import my contact information. When I go to do an
import, the import wizard tells me my files are not compatible. I then
went
to where I saved my information and noticed that the contacts were saved
as a
.txt file. I am not sure that I had an option to save them any other way.
My question is, how do I go about converting this file into a recognizable
file that Outlook will read. I have tried to open this file in Excel but
there are questions regarding how to open this file that I don't
understand.
I believe when I saved the file, I saved them with a semicolon or: to
separate the values. Each time I try to delineate this option when
opening
the file in Excel it doesn't seem to open correctly. Is there any way to
convert this file so I can import it into my Outlook contacts. I have
been
racking my brains and trying the numerous things but none seem to work.
Please help, I have hundreds of contacts that have taken years to compile
and
I can't upload them.