Contact management > Synchronizing AccountEdge cards with Microsoft Outlook contacts > Exporting your AccountEdge cards to your Outlook contacts
If you use a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) and want to synchronize your Outlook contacts and your PDA, your contacts must be saved to the Microsoft Outlook default contacts folder. When you export your AccountEdge cards to your Outlook contacts, you can select an option to save your contacts to the default contacts folder (see step 7 on page 266).
To export your AccountEdge cards to your Outlook contacts
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Go to the Card File command center and click Cards List. The Cards List window appears.
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Click Sync Cards. The Synchronize Cards window appears.
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Click Synchronize Cards. The Outlook Sync - Import and Export Options window appears.
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If you want to include inactive cards in your synchronization, select the Allow the export of inactive AccountEdge cards to Outlook option. For information about inactive cards, see ‘Inactivating or reactivating a record’ on page 208.
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If you want to synchronize your Outlook contacts and your PDA, select the Import and export all AccountEdge cards to the default contacts folder option. All contacts are then saved to your default Outlook contacts folder.
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Click OK. The Outlook Sync - Import and Export Options window reappears.
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Click Export. A Microsoft warning appears.
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Select the Allow access for option.
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Select a period from 1 minute to 10 minutes.
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Click Yes.
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If you selected the Update existing contacts rule or the Do not update existing contacts rule, the Outlook Sync - Export Summary window appears. Go to step 11 below.
If you selected the Ask me to confirm updates rule, the Outlook Sync - Confirm Update to Outlook Contact window appears.
The number of Outlook contacts updated to match the details in your AccountEdge cards. Note that if you selected the Do not update existing contacts rule, updated duplicate contacts will always be 0.
The number of cards you skipped (if you selected the Ask me to confirm updates rule) or the number of duplicate contacts (if you selected the Do not update existing contacts rule). Duplicate contacts have not been updated to match your AccountEdge cards.
Note that if you selected the Update existing contacts rule, rejected cards will always be 0.

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