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See Part One for instructions on how to export Outlook contacts to Excel for data management. Long field names are a pain—they use too much space and take forever to type—so shorten them.

Part One: Start with exporting your Outlook contacts to a .CSV file.

Numbers has the ability to open Excel files so you can work on them. You can also export spreadsheets in Numbers so that they are compatible with Excel.