How to Restore Missing Contacts Outlook 2010?

Outlook 2010 Missing Contacts Recovery

Contacts stored on MS Outlook 2010 application are a very valuable commodity; Outlook keeps track of people’s phone number, address, email id and much other valuable information. Similar to any other email clients even Microsoft Outlook 2010 application stores all your valuable Contact and other Outlook items in a personal information folder called PST. However, many a times you lose few of your important contacts from your Outlook 2010 email address book due to many reasons. Don’t panic if you have encountered such situation. Just read on this article to find out easy way to recover missing contacts from Outlook 2010.

Way to recover contacts in Outlook 2010?

The most common assumption that you feel is that the contacts might not have been actually lost; it might have been inadvertently deleted. Like, maybe you were clearing few unwanted contacts from address book and accidentally highlighted the important person, or maybe someone was using your computer and made an accidental deletion. However, even after such mistaken deletion you can still be able to find lost contacts in Outlook 2010 from “Deleted Items” folder.

Procedure to restore missing contacts from Deleted Folder is given below:

• Click the “Deleted Items” folder in the column at the left side of the window
• Search for the lost contact, if found
• Right click on the contact and select to move to folder option
• Move to folder option helps you move the selected contact to your desired location
• (OR) simply drag the required contact and move the same to your Contacts folder

This is one of the easiest ways to restore missing contacts if found in Outlook 2010 deleted folder, if the above procedure doesn’t help. Then it is very likely that you need to use a third party application to restore your missing contacts from Outlook 2010.

Which software to use at such critical situation?

Remo Repair is excellent software to use in this kind of situations; this is a repair cum recovery application which helps users to easily restore missing contacts on Outlook 2010 application. The tool has the ability to repair severely corrupt PST file and ensures all your deleted / lost contacts are restored back. Other than Contacts, the tool also recovers other important Outlook elements such as emails, calendar entries, notes, RSS feeds etc. Furthermore, the tool is compatible to run on almost all Windows OS family including Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and even the latest Windows 8.

Learn how to use this software for recovering missing contacts:

Step 1: Download and install Remo Repair software to your computer. Launch the application and the main screen displays three options. Click on “Open PST File” option to browse for the PST file which is to be repaired, use “Find PST File” option to find your PST file or choose “Outlook Profile” option to choose a particular Outlook profile if you’re PC has multiple Outlook profiles.

Figure A: Main Screen

Step 2: Select the corresponding scanning technique and click on “Repair” button.

Figure B: Choose Scanning Method

Step 3: The software starts the repairing process and after completion it displays all the recovered contacts and other Outlook elements.

Figure C: Repaired PST File