You may want to import your existing contacts from your old Nokia (or in general
VCard format) to your new iPhone.
You need to do some simple steps:
First you need to have Outlook and iTunes installed on your computer, then copy your .vcf files to a location in your hard disk, e.g. C:\VCARDS. Now when you open .vcf files, Outlook brigs a window, then you can save and close the window, the contact file is imported to your Outlook's Contacts. You need to repeat this action for all of your .vcf files. (I'll explain a way for bulk importing contacts later in this article)
After that you import all of your contacts to Outlook, you can simply synchronize iTunes contacts with Outlook and your iPhone. Done!
But there is still one issue remaining, importing all of your .vcf files manually is a very time consuming and boring job, let's write a code to do this automatically for you!
I've taken this code from
here. Nice piece of code!
Here is the steps you need to do:
This can also be done using a VBA macro. First create a folder on the root of the C: drive and name it VCARDS. Next copy all your individual vCard files (.vcf) to this newly created folder. Next open Outlook and click ALT + F11 to open the VBA editor.
Click TOOLS --> REFERENCES and then select Microsoft Scripting Runtime and Windows Script Host Object Model from the list and place checks in the box next to each and click OK.
Next click INSERT --> MODULE and copy and paste the code below into the blank module. Save and run the macro to automatically import and save all the individual files into Outlook.
<br />Sub OpenSaveVCard()<br /> <br />Dim objWSHShell As IWshRuntimeLibrary.IWshShell<br />Dim objOL As Outlook.Application<br />Dim colInsp As Outlook.Inspectors<br />Dim strVCName As String<br />Dim fso As Scripting.FileSystemObject<br />Dim fsDir As Scripting.Folder<br />Dim fsFile As Scripting.File<br />Dim vCounter As Integer<br /> <br /> <br />Set fso = New Scripting.FileSystemObject<br />Set fsDir = fso.GetFolder("C:\VCARDS")<br /><br />For Each fsFile In fsDir.Files<br /><br /> strVCName = "C:\VCARDS\" & fsFile.Name<br /> Set objOL = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")<br /> Set colInsp = objOL.Inspectors<br /> If colInsp.Count = 0 Then<br /> Set objWSHShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")<br /> objWSHShell.Run strVCName<br /> Set colInsp = objOL.Inspectors<br /> If Err = 0 Then<br /> Do Until colInsp.Count = 1<br /> DoEvents<br /> Loop<br /> colInsp.Item(1).CurrentItem.Save<br /> colInsp.Item(1).Close olDiscard<br /> Set colInsp = Nothing<br /> Set objOL = Nothing<br /> Set objWSHShell = Nothing<br /> End If<br /> End If<br /><br />Next<br /><br />End Sub<br /><br />Thanks Rollin for the code.
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