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How to export birthdays of all contacts from Outlook?

Author: Kelly Last Modified: 2025-04-18

When exporting a contact folder with the "Import and Export" feature in Outlook, the contact birthdays are not exported at all. Thus, is there a way to export contact birthdays? Here, this article will introduce a trick on exporting all contact birthdays from an Outlook contact folder easily.

Export birthdays of all contacts from Outlook


Export birthdays of all contacts from Outlook

To export the birthdays of all contacts from contact folder in Outlook, please do as follows:

1. In the "People" (or "Contacts") folder, select the contact folder that you will export contact birthdays from, and then click "View" > "Change View" > "List" to show the contacts in list view.

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2. Go ahead to click "View" > "Add Columns". See screenshot:

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3. Now the Show Columns dialog box opens, please (1) select "All Contacts fields" from the "Select available columns from" drop down list; (2) click to select "Birthday" in the "Available columns" list box, and (3) click the "Add" button. See screenshot:

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Now the Birthday column is added into the "Show these columns in this order" list box.

4. Go ahead to remove unnecessary columns from the" Show these columns in this order" list box, and click the "OK" button.

Note: You can remove unnecessary columns as follows: (1) select one of unnecessary column in the "Show these columns in this order" list box, (2) click the" Remove" button, and (3) repeat to remove other columns.

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5. Now you return to the contact folder, press "Ctrl" + "A" keys together to select all contacts in it, and then press "Ctrl" + "C" keys simultaneously to copy them.

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6. Launch Excel, select a blank cell, press "Ctrl" + "V" keys together to paste the contacts, and then save the workbook.

So far, the birthdays of all contacts have been exported from the specified contact folder in Outlook already.


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