Outlook 2016 CSV Translator Import Error

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While trying to import a .csv contact list into an outlook contact folder, I receive the following error message:

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I have already reviewed the online Microsoft help files, no joy. The .csv is in the correct format, was created with Excel, is not in use by another application and I have all the applicable permissions. I am scratching my head as to where the problem might be. I have also gone to another system and have attempted the import from there, same error message. Has there been a significant change to file mapping?

I am stumped! Any help would be greatly appreciated. - Terri
 
Try this from an old article I recently deleted as obsolete. Might need to restore it.. :)

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This is the result of the exported file's Unicode encoding. When the CSV is opened in Excel, all of the comma-separated fields are shown in one cell, not one cell per field. Excel can’t detect the field separators and neither can Outlook.

If you open the file in Excel to look at it, close it without saving.

Solution: Save the CSV with ANSI format selected. Open the CSV file in Notepad and use File, Save as then select ANSI from the Encoding dropdown and Save using the existing file name.
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Diane Poremsky said:
Try this from an old article I recently deleted as obsolete. Might need to restore it.. :)

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This is the result of the exported file's Unicode encoding. When the CSV is opened in Excel, all of the comma-separated fields are shown in one cell, not one cell per field. Excel can’t detect the field separators and neither can Outlook.

If you open the file in Excel to look at it, close it without saving.

Solution: Save the CSV with ANSI format selected. Open the CSV file in Notepad and use File, Save as then select ANSI from the Encoding dropdown and Save using the existing file name.
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I reviewed and tried this as well, before posting :). This does not appear to be the issue. I am absolutely clueless at this point.
 
I am having the exact same issue. Attached is my CSV file. It came from the new Google Contacts, exported as Outlook CSV file, as opposed to Google CSV file. Same error and same prob as TMC. Help!!!

I have tried on Win 10, OL 2016 (64-bit) and Mac Outlook 2016.

It open as many columns in excel, but saving is bak as a CSV in Excel did not help.

Saving in Notepad as ANSI encoding did not help!

What is the next step?
How will I know when this thread is updated?

stgmike 07-11-2019
 
I had the same problem. I had saved my gmail contacts to a .csv file. Tried to save these contacts to Outlook for my new company. Same error message. Help at Microsoft was a dead end. I then opened the same .csv and saved it as a CSV UTF-8 (comma delimited) .csv. It worked! I am not smarter.....just lucky on this one.
 
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