How To Export Your Address Book From Comcast Webmail

As anybody has experienced, losing a contact list or address book from your Cell Phone or PDA can be a nightmare. Especially if it was never exported or backed up. The same applies to your Webmail address book in your Comcast email account.

Think about the many hours it would take to re-create all the entries in the address book, if you did not have a backup saved in a safe location. Fortunately Comcast has an export function to easily export contacts, so you can save them in a safe location.

The following procedure only applies if you are using Comcast Webmail. If you use another email application, such as Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, etc, refer to those applications documentation for exporting the local address book.

First log on to your Comcast account and access your Webmail mailbox.

Next, click on the Address Book link in the left navigation menu.

After the address book opens, click on the Export icon in the toolbar.

You will then have a choice of four formats for exporting. Select either, Palm Pilot ABA, MS Outlook CSV, MS Outlook Express CSV, or Netscape Communicator LDIF. If you are unsure, select MS Outlook Express CSV.

Click on the Export button and save the file to a location on your disk, or better yet on another hard drive or USB Drive.

If you ever have the need to add the saved contacts back in to the address book, just reverse the process and select Import. Then select the file format you chose during the export proceedure.

NOTE: Before importing, make sure no contacts exist that are in the export file. Otherwise, importing will create duplicate entries that you will need to clean up later.