To export user-defined fields from your Contacts, define a Table view of the Contacts containing the user-defined fields.
Then copy the contacts from Outlook and paste them into Microsoft Excel where you can save them in a variety of formats.

To define a Table view of your Contacts folder containing the user-defined fields you want to export:

1. On the Tools menu, click Organize, and then click Using Views.
2. In the Change Your View list, click a tabular view such as Phone list, click Customize Current View, and then click Fields.
3. Click the field source from the "Select available fields from" list. This may be either "User-defined fields in folder" or a form containing the user-defined fields.
4. Click the user-defined fields from the "Available fields" list, and then click Add to move the fields to the "Show these fields in this order" list.
5. To position a field in the list, click the field, and then click Move Up or Move Down.
6. Click OK twice.
7. In the Current View list, click to select the current view name and type a name for your new view.
8. Press ENTER, and then click OK.

The information in this article applies to:

• Microsoft Outlook 2000
• Microsoft Outlook 98
• Microsoft Outlook 97