Export your contacts

You can export your contacts onto a usb key in a CSV format.

1. Insert your USB key

2. Click on import/export

3. Click on Export your contacts

Import your contacts

{warning} In order to import your contacts from a USB key, you need an ovhfax.csv file in the appropriate format (see below)

1. Insert your USB key

2. Click on import/export

3. Click on import your contacts

CSV file format

The ovhfax.csv file containing your contacts mut have the following format :

• the field separator is the semicolon (;)
• the columns are : 'firstname', 'lastname', 'company', 'fax'
• the encoding is in UTF-8

Usage with Excel

Import the csv file into a workbook

From the speadsheet to which you want to import the contacts :

1. Click on Data, then click on From Text
2. Select the ovhfax.csv file
3. For File origin select 65001: Unicode (UTF-8)
4. For Délimiters select Semicolon
5. Click on Load
6. In Table Tools > Design click on Convert to Range

Export of a table to a csv file

Your table must have for columns : firstname, lastname, company and fax.

From your spreadsheet :

1. Click on File then Export
2. Click on Edit the file format
3. Choose CSV (delimiter: comma)
4. Click on Save as
5. Save in a file
6. On Windows, right-click on the file then create Open with and choose Notepad
7. Click on Edit then on Replace
8. In Find what enter , and in Replace with enter ;
9. Click on Replace All
10. Click on File then Save as
11. Choose for encoding UTF-8
12. Save on the USB key under the name ovhfax.csv