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You can expand your friends network by importing your friends list from Microsoft Outlook or any other popular email client. After you have imported them you can choose from the list who you want to invite to join or to have as your friend...!

  1. Export your list from your email browser (instructions for many popular browsers below)
  2. Go to INVITE FRIENDS and import the list
  3. Choose who to add as friends and who to invite
  4. End up with a much bigger and better friends network!

Outlook

To export a CSV or tab-delimited text file from Outlook:
  1. Open Outlook
  2. Select "Import and Export" from the File menu
  3. When the wizard opens, select "Export to a file" and click "Next"
  4. Select "Comma separated values (Windows)" and click "Next"
  5. Select the Contacts folder you would like to export and click "Next"
  6. Choose a filename and a place to save the file (for instance, "Contacts.csv" on the Desktop), then click "Next"
  7. Confirm what you are exporting: make sure the checkbox next to "Export..." is checked and click "Finish"
  8. You can now go to INVITE FRIENDS in playtxt, click BROWSE... and navigate to where you saved the file (e.g. on the Desktop) select the file, then press GO to upload your list. You can then choose who to add!

 

Outlook Express

To export a CSV or tab-delimited text file from Outlook Express:
  1. Open Outlook Express
  2. Select "Export" from the "File" menu
  3. Click "Export", and then click "Address Book"
  4. Select "Text File" (Comma Separated Values), and then click "Export".
  5. Choose a filename and a place to save the file (for instance, "Contacts.csv" on the Desktop) and click "Next"
  6. Click to select the check boxes for the fields that you want to export, and then click "Finish". Please be sure to select the email address and name fields
  7. Click "OK" and then click "Close"
  8. You can now go to INVITE FRIENDS in playtxt, click BROWSE... and navigate to where you saved the file (e.g. on the Desktop) select the file, then press GO to upload your list. You can then choose who to add!

 

Windows Address Book

To export a CSV file from Windows Address Book:
  1. Open Address Book
  2. From the "File" menu, select "Export", then "Other Address Book..."
  3. When the "Address Book Export Tool" dialog opens, select "Text File (Comma Separated Values)" and click "Export"
  4. Choose a filename and a place to save the file (for instance, "Contacts.csv" on the Desktop) and click "Next"
  5. Click to select the check boxes for the fields that you want to export, and then click "Finish". Please be sure to select the email address and name fields
  6. Click "OK" and then click "Close"
  7. You can now go to INVITE FRIENDS in playtxt, click BROWSE... and navigate to where you saved the file (e.g. on the Desktop) select the file, then press GO to upload your list. You can then choose who to add!

 

Palm Desktop

To export a CSV file from Palm Desktop:
  1. Open Palm Desktop
  2. Display your contacts list by clicking the "Addresses" icon on the lefthand side of the screen
  3. Select "Export" from the "File" menu
  4. When the dialog box opens:
    • Enter a name for the file you are creating in the "File name:" field
    • Select "Comma Separated" in the "Export Type" pulldown menu
    • Be sure to select the "All" radio button from the two "Range:" radio buttons
  5. A second dialog box "Specify Export Fields" opens. Leave all of the checkboxes checked, and click "OK"
  6. You can now go to INVITE FRIENDS in playtxt, click BROWSE... and navigate to where you saved the file (e.g. on the Desktop) select the file, then press GO to upload your list. You can then choose who to add!

 

Entourage

To export a tab-delimited text file from Entourage:
  1. Open Entourage
  2. Select "Export" from the "File" menu
  3. Select "Local Contacts to a list (tab-delimited text)"
  4. Click the "Next" arrow
  5. Choose a filename and a place to save the file (for instance, "Contacts.txt" on the Desktop), then click "Save"
  6. Click "Done" in the confirm dialog
  7. You can now go to INVITE FRIENDS in playtxt, click BROWSE... and navigate to where you saved the file (e.g. on the Desktop) select the file, then press GO to upload your list. You can then choose who to add!

 

Other

Many email clients and PIM programs allow contacts to be exported to a file. We support the following types of contact file:
  • Comma-separated values (.csv)
  • Tab-delimited text (.txt)

Please check your email client's documentation to see whether contact export to one of these formats is supported. If it's not, you can make a suggestion for us to add support for the contact file format that your email client is capable of exporting.

Once you have exported the file, you can then go to INVITE FRIENDS in playtxt, click BROWSE... and navigate to where you saved the file (e.g. on the Desktop) select the file, then press GO to upload your list. You can then choose who to add!