The exercises in this article are based on a small set of Outlook sample contacts. If you wish to actually test the principles discussed using this sample data, you may import the sample CSV file, a link to which is given below. There are only 14 contacts in this database so they can easily be deleted again once you are done.

Sample CSV File - Outlook_Contacts.csv

A CSV (Comma-Separated-Variable) file is a data file where the fields are separated by a comma. By default if you open a CSV file and you have Microsoft Excel installed, the file should open in Excel, as shown below:

For details on importing this file, refer to the following document:

OutlookWise Tutorial – Importing Outlook Data

Once you have imported the file, you should have the following contacts showing in your Contacts folder. Alternatively, you may want to create a new sub-folder below your Contacts folder and import these contacts into this sub-folder, so that this data does not interfere with your “working” contacts list.