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Import Excel Contacts to BlackBerry Phones

Blackberry, A Canadian well-known company offers a wide range of Business Smartphone. Most Blackberry phones operated on their own developed Operating system. That makes difficult for normal BB user to import contacts from Excel file. As excel file can be used to import thousands of contact details into Blackberry phones. But a long procedure can be followed by the user to find the solution of how to Convert Excel to Blackberry contacts.

As Blackberry devices run on their developed operating system called Blackberry OS. It becomes so difficult to view excel file contact details the devices But a user can still move the saved contact in an excel file to your BB device with the help of Excel to BB Contact Converter.

Features of Excel to BB Contacts Converter

  • Excel to BlackBerry converter supports all BlackBerry Phones.
    Excel to BlackBerry converter supports BlackBerry (Leap, Porsche, Passport, Classic, Z3, Z30, Z10, Q5, Q10, Curve 9380, 70, 60, 50 30, 20, Bold 9790 30, Bold Touch 9900, Style 9670, Torch 9860, 50, 10, Tourch 9800) Phones. A user can smoothly transfer contacts from Excel to these Blackberry phones.
  • Tool supports all file formats of Excel such as XLS and XLSX.
  • Preview Complete Excel file details before exporting to device
  • Convert Excel File into different vCard Format Versions

Transfer Contacts from Excel to Blackberry Contacts

  • Step1: Convert Excel contacts to vCard Format
  • Step2: Import multiple vCard files to Outlook Application
  • Step3: Move Contacts from Outlook to Blackberry Phones

To convert Excel to Blackberry contacts first, we need to convert the contacts stored in Excel files into VCard format. As Excel file different from vCard file but it can help BlackBerry user, a user just needs to convert the Excel file into an Outlook vCard format. Follow the simple procedure in below section.

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1 - Launch Excel to vCard Converter

Download & Install the Excel to VCard Software. A user can convert contacts stored in Excel (XLS/XLSX) format. Just Browse the Excel file in Configure system.

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2 - View Contact Details:

When an Excel file loaded within the software then preview the data stored in the contacts file.

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3 - Map Attributes

To synchronize the contacts, a user needs to map the attributes of Excel file with the Outlook attributes.

select vCard format

4 - Select vCard Format:

Before converting the vCard file into BlackBerry contacts, user can select the various available export options and select the "Destination Path" to save the VCF file.

Import vCard to Outlook Application


5 - View vCard File:

Open Microsoft Application in New Window and open contacts section of Outlook. Open the folder and select all the contact by Copy Command (Ctrl + A) Now Drag the files to an Outlook contact window.

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6 - Save Contacts

Now Save & Close each contact in Outlook profile manually.

Import Excel Contacts to Blackberry Phones


After transferring contacts from Outlook to Blackberry, a user can now access the Outlook account on their Blackberry devices. So that they can access the converted Excel file into BB Devices. But this not that simple, first user needs to install Blackberry Desktop Software to synchronize the Outlook account into their account. Follow the below steps to add vCard to blackberry contacts.


  • Blackberry 7.1 & Below Versions: Install BlackBerry Manager to import vCard into BB contacts
  • For Blackberry 10.0 & Above Versions: Install Blackberry Link

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7 - Install BlackBerry Desktop Manager

First download the BlackBerry Desktop Software Exe on your machine. Launch the .exe file and complete the process of installation.

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8 - Connect BlackBerry Device

Now connect the BlackBerry Phone with the help of USB Cable to the system.

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9 - Organize Contacts

When the BlackBerry Device detected by the Desktop Software Manager. Click on "Organizer" option to convert the vCard contact to BB devices.

select contact field

10 - Configure Contacts Details

Now Under Organizer section, Check Contact Box option to manage data between the BlackBerry device and Desktop Organizer.

Select Synchronization Direction

11 - Select Synchronization Direction

Select "One Way to your device only" option to synchronize the Outlook contact list to your Blackberry phone.

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12 - Account Settings

After selecting the drop-down option of the Sync Direction, Now select the desired Outlook profile in which the Vcard file is stored.

Synchronize VCard Contacts to blackberry contacts

13 - Synchronize VCard Contacts

Click on Sync Organizer option at the bottom of the Desktop Software Interface.

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14 - View Synchronization Process

BlackBerry user can view the process of synchronization of contacts file.

successful conversion of vCard to blackberry device

15 - Successful File Transfer

After importing vCard into Blackberry contacts using the Outlook account, a message-box appeared with message "files transferred to BlackBerry Device Successfully".

Using above procedure, BB user can transfer Excel file contacts into BlackBerry Phones and access the imported Vcard contacts into BlackBerry Devices. Excel to BlackBerry Converter supports a large range of Blackberry devices.