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Print Your Address Book In Windows (Vista) Mail

Posted by on Dec 18, 2007 | 12 Comments

Many people store their contacts in their email clients, such as Outlook or Outlook Express. Having a printed copy of your contacts can also be handy in the event that you are not in front of your computer but still need contact information.

The email client included in Vista, known as Windows Mail, lets you easily print out a copy of your contacts, using the steps described below.

  1. Click Start and click your username at the top of the Start menu.
  2. Open your Contacts folder.
  3. Highlight all your contacts or select the specific contacts you want to print.
  4. Click the Print button that appears within the Contacts folder.
  5. Select your printer and click Print.
  • Fran Christoferson

    As per your instructions, I can print out my Contacts List when using a g’ood number of the Contacts but cannot print All of the list when it is highlisted by Select All. It seems that the right lick menu that comes does not have PRINT in it. Can you help? Thanks. Fran

  • marie-claire herzog

    Hi, I have followed your instructions but am having a hard time even finding the print button. Help. Thanks. Marie-Claire

  • Patricia W Whitlow

    I think Windows Vista Contact is a sorry excuse for an address book.
    What the programers of Windows Contact call an address book is a real joke to anyone that uses a real address book program. A reall address book program would have many print options, not to mention a nice layout that would show 90% of the information you want on the very first page when you clicked on a name. They way the programers wrote this program is really sad. They could learn a lot from the old Address Book program put out by Parsons Technology. Which will of course NOT RUN in VISTA. Shame on Microsoft for a shabby program like this, that they pass of as an Address book.
    In fact I think Windows Vista is a sorry program period and I am not happy that I could not have Windowsxp on my new laptop.

  • David Ellis

    I cannot get the windows address book to print following
    Dianas’ instructions. I agree: the Win Vista Mail address bok is a cumbersome method of storing email addresses and other information. I have my windows vista home premium in the classic mode, but should work the same.

  • Edi151

    Agree that Windows Vista Contacts is a real bummer. Outlook Express address book was much more functional.
    Would have stayed with WinXP had I known this problem.

    My biggest problem is that when you use Create Mail in Win Mail, then go to add addresses its now a lot of work. You have to scroll thru the entire list of addresses, hundreds in my case. This is caused because there is no option to get specific subfolders with smaller groups of addresses.

    Why do they have the organise, drag and drop function if you can’t access them from the New Message window?

    Obviously the programmers don’t send many emails.

  • Harold Carl

    After I installed Service Pack 1, I went to the Contacts Folder under my name and came up with the Contacts folder. I selected “Organize” and “Select All” which gave me a print button in the menu bar. I printed it out. HOORAY!

  • http://www.winvistatips.com/windows-vista-mail-f33.html Vista Mail

    I’ve been having problems printing contacts, so it looks like exporting them to a CSV file and then opening it in Excel is the easiest way to do it (if you need to change the layout).

  • Kathy

    Windows Vista is the biggest PITA Microsoft ever created. THERE IS NO PRINT BUTTON ON THE HIGHLIGHTED CONTACT PAGE. Therefore, I cannot print out my email list. Even pressing ControlP will not bring up the print option.
    Shame on Microsoft for creating this Contact list.

  • http://www.brycons.com Larry Brown

    Thanks for this tip. That’s great. I used it to print to PDFreDirect and got a PDF file of my contacts.

    I would love to export to Excel like user “Vista Mail” suggested. How do you think you might do that? There is no option to export or save as CSV.
    LB

  • Kerri Marshall

    Thanks to Harold Carl for his excellent advise.It WORKS!!!

  • http://na Gary Matthews

    To Patricia Whitlow.
    I successfully installed and using Parons Address Book 7.0 on Visa Home Premium. I did have to run a free conversion program to convert the HELP file for VISTA.
    This is the greatest program, have used it for YEARS>

  • Meggles

    Endless frustration! Windows Live Mail and Vista Contacts have finally solved the problems of having a portable email program and making it much easier to back up messages and contacts, BUT at the expense of being able to print out an address book with all the fields I want and in an attractive format like I could in Outlook. Why is it that each step forward seems to be accompanied by steps backwards?
    Windows programmers – please listen!
    I might try the Parsons Address Book when I’ve calmed down.