Hi,

I need to download my Outlook Address Book and eventually place all of the names and email addresses from it into an Excel file. I am using Microsoft Office 2010.

For starters, in Outlook, I went to Send/Receive > Send/Receive Groups > Download Address Book. This downloaded the Address Book to the following folder:
C:\Documents and Settings\Computer User\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\Offline Address Books

The download generated 6 new files:
uanrdex.oab
ubrowse.oab
updndex.oab
urdndex.oab
utmplts.oab
udetails.oab



Of these 6, I found that "udetails.oab" has the information I need, as I can see a lot of emails within it (I'm not sure of the purpose of the rest of the files). However, the problem is that udetails.oab is not in an easily readable format - although I can spot some things I recognize like email addresses and names, a lot of the file is sprinkled with NULL characters and other indistinguishable junk characters (it's clearly not a plain text file).

Does anyone know a way to go about extracting all of the user details (names, emails, etc) from this udetails.oab file, or some other way to truly download my Address Book such that I can store the user information in Excel instead of just Outlook?

Any help would be very much appreciated, thanks!

Here is some info about .oab files that may help you understand what they are:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/841273

The oab file is just a snapshot of what is in your address book in Outlook. If you want to extract the information into Excel, follow the steps on this site: Please note this will only extract your contacts.


http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ou...001096422.aspx