"Hossam" wrote in message
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The main purpose is to backup my contacts, which I do every few months.

Then don't export. All you need to do is to make a copy of your pst file
each time. that has all your email, contacts, calendar and tasks in it.


In addition I synchronise it with my cell phone. I used to do the same
process
with OL2003, but with OL2007 it is not working!


as before, export to CSV file, open in excel, and "Save-As" Excel 97-2003
format file.