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Syncing Contacts
If you’ve been adding to your address book for years in a program like Microsoft
Outlook or Mac OS X’s Address Book, you’re just a sync away from porting all
that accumulated data right over to your iPhone. Once there, info like phone
numbers and email addresses show up as links, so you can reach out and tap
someone.
Here’s how to sync up your contacts with the iPhone. The steps are slightly
different depending on which program you keep them in.
Outlook 2003 and 2007
With the iPhone plugged into the computer, click its icon in the iTunes source
list, then click the Info tab in the main part of the window. Turn on Sync contacts
from:, and, from the pop-up menu, choose Outlook. Finally, click Apply.
Note that some of the more obscure data fields Outlook lets you use, like
“Radio” and “Telex,” won’t show up on the iPhone. All the major data points,
however, like name, email address, and (most importantly) phone number,
do.
If Outlook gives you grief and error messages, you might be missing the necessary
plug-in. Visit http://tinyurl.com/2lff4y for Apple’s tips on getting it to
play nice with the iPhone.
Outlook Express
Microsoft’s free email app for Windows stores your contacts in a file called the
Windows Address Book. With the iPhone plugged into the computer, click its
icon in the iTunes source list, and then click the Info tab in the main part of
the window.
Turn on Sync contacts from:, choose Windows Address Book from the pop-up
menu, and click Apply.
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