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If you want to use Outlook as your main email program, there are two things you really should do. The first thing you’ll need to do is set up the Yahoo Outlook connection so Outlook can see your Yahoo account. At the end of this article is a link to the the procedure you need to follow to make this happen.

The second step is to make sure that Outlook has a copy of all your Yahoo Contacts. Getting your Yahoo Contacts into Outlook is what we’re going to talk about here.

NOTE: Be aware that what we’re doing here is copying contacts, not synchronizing Yahoo Mail and Outlook. This doesn’t create any live or continual connection between them. If you add new contacts into Yahoo, you’ll want to repeat this process to get those contacts into Outlook.

The Steps

If you are at all comfortable setting up things on your computer, it isn’t isn’t very difficult to get a copy of your Yahoo Mail contacts into Outlook. There are, however, a lot of steps, some of which are best described with the aide of a figure. Here’s what you need to do:

1. You start on the Yahoo side of things so log into your Yahoo Mail account and click the Contacts tab to see your Yahoo Contacts.
2. Select the contacts you want copied into Outlook. Don’t worry about whether or not a contact is already included in Outlook. Later on in these instructions we’ll direct Outlook to ignore duplicate contacts.
3. Click the Tools button, then Export. You should now see an “Export: page.
4. Now click the Export Now button. It appears next to the words, “Microsoft Outlook.”

This is where, as the saying goes, “a picture is worth a thousand words.” That’s why I’m referring you to the Living With Outlook website, where the complete process, with screenshots, is available. Simply go here for the complete instructions:

http://www.living-with-outlook.com/yahoo-outlook-contacts.html

NOTE: If you still need to configure Outlook to work with Yahoo mail, go to: http://www.Living-With-Outlook.com/yahoo-mail.html for complete instructions.

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Would you like to connect your Yahoo Mail account to Outlook so you can send, receive, and manage all your email in one place? If so, this article will show you the steps you need to follow to make Outlook and Yahoo Mail play nicely together. I think you will really like the practical benefits of being able to work with all your mail through one program. You'll also like being able to use Outlook's familiar interface for everything, rather than the mish-mash of different tool you face when you deal with each account you own separately.

You can only use your Yahoo Mail with Outlook if you have a premium Yahoo Mail account. That means, you have to use either:

• A Yahoo Mail Plus account ($19.99 per year)
• A Yahoo Business Email account ($9.95 per month)

If you don't have one of these account types, you cannot connect Yahoo Mail and Outlook. But its easy to convert a free Yahoo Mail account (the kind that most people start out with) to a Mail Plus account is simple. This link opens a new window that walks you through the Mail Plus upgrade process. Be sure to return to this article once you have upgraded your account so we can configure Outlook to work with your Yahoo Mail Plus account. And don't worry. If you've already upgraded to a Yahoo Mail Plus account, the Mail Plus page will tell you that you don't need to upgrade.

The process of configuring both types of Yahoo Mail to work with Outlook is almost the same. But before we talk about that, you need to be aware of something. As part of the process for configuring Yahoo mail with Outlook you will be telling the Yahoo mail servers not to keep copies of messages on the server once you view them with Outlook. Once that happens, you won't be able to read them anymore using the Yahoo Mail web interface. This is most likely the way you want to set things up, since having more than one copy of a message in existence at one time will surely cause you confusion and frustration, and is something to be aware of. Just don't be surprised the first time you open the Yahoo Mail web interface and can't find messages that you are sure you saw in Outlook.

With that out of the way, let's move on to the configuration process, The detailed procedure you have to follow during the configuration process depend on the particular version of Outlook you have. To keep things simple, there are two separate procedures, one for Outlook 2007, and the other for earlier versions. To keep this article from getting gigantic (and to make it easy to update the procedures should they need to change), the procedures are on the Living With Outlook (http://www.Living-With-Outlook.com) website instead of right here.

To learn how to configure Outlook 2007 and Yahoo Mail, go to http://www.living-with-outlook.com/yahoo-mail.html#Configure2007Anchor

If you want to make a version of Outlook that's not Outlook 2007 work with your Yahoo Mail account, go to http://www.living-with-outlook.com/yahoo-mail.html#ConfigureOutlookAnchor

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To use Outlook as your email program for your Yahoo mail too, you should do these two things. The first thing you’ll need to do is set up the Yahoo Outlook connection so Outlook can see your Yahoo account. At the end of this article is a link to the the procedure you need to follow to make this happen.

The second step is to make sure that Outlook has a copy of all your Yahoo Contacts. Getting your Yahoo Contacts into Outlook is what we’re going to talk about here.

NOTE: Please be aware that what we’re going to do is make a copy of your Yahoo Mail contacts and transfer that copy into Outlook. There won’t be any kind of live connection between the two. If you add new contacts into Yahoo, you’ll want to repeat this process to get those contacts into Outlook.

The Steps

If you are at all comfortable setting up things on your computer, it isn’t really hard to get a copy of your Yahoo Mail contacts into Outlook. There are, however, a lot of steps, some of which are best described with the aide of a figure. You can get started like this:

1. You start on the Yahoo side of things so log into your Yahoo Mail account and click the Contacts tab to see your Yahoo Contacts.
2. Set the checkmark next to the contacts you want to copy to Outlook. Don’t worry about whether or not a contact is already included in Outlook. Further down in the procedure, we direct Outlook to ignore any duplicate contacts.
3. Click Tools, then Export. You should now see an “Export: page.
4. Now you need to click the Export Now button. It appears next to the words, “Microsoft Outlook.”

This is where, as the saying goes, “a picture is worth a thousand words.” That’s why I’m referring you to the Living With Outlook website, where the complete process, with screenshots, is available. The complete process, with screen shots, is laid out here:

http://www.living-with-outlook.com/yahoo-outlook-contacts.html

NOTE: If you still need to configure Outlook to work with Yahoo mail, go to: http://www.Living-With-Outlook.com/yahoo-mail.html for complete instructions.

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