Opening CONTACT Files

The CONTACT file type is primarily associated with Windows Address Books.

CONTACT	File extension: CONTACT
	File type:	contact file

What is a CONTACT file?

CONTACT files mostly belong to Windows Address Books by Microsoft Corporation. CONTACT file format is associated with Windows Contacts application, the in-built contact management application developed by Microsoft Corporation and is present by default on computers running on Microsoft Windows operating system.

• Use: Windows Contacts application allows users to save information pertaining to an individual such as the First name, Last name, Photo, Email address, Home Address, Work Address, Details of Family members, and other notes in one place using a CONTACT file. This information is saved in the CONTACT file in an XML format. CONTACT files are automatically stored using the Full Name field information entered while filling the details of the individual. If the image of the person is also added in the CONTACT file, Windows Contacts uses the photo as the display image. All the CONTACT files are generally stored in the \Users\[USERNAME]\Contacts by default. The CONTACT files can be exported to other popular contact formats such as VCF and CSF from the Windows Explorer menu in the \Users\[USERNAME]\Contacts directory on the Windows PC.
• Adoption: CONTACT files can be created and opened using the Windows Contacts application which is present by default on Windows PCs running on Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, and Windows Vista operating systems.

How to open CONTACT files

You need a suitable software like Windows Address Books from Microsoft Corporation to open a CONTACT file. Without proper software you will receive a Windows message "How do you want to open this file?" or "Windows cannot open this file" or a similar Mac/iPhone/Android alert. If you cannot open your CONTACT file correctly, try to right-click or long-press the file. Then click "Open with" and choose an application. You can also display a CONTACT file directly in the browser:. Just drag the file onto this browser window and drop it.

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How to extract texts from CONTACT files or capture a screenshot to PDF, JPG, DOCX, TXT, ...

1. Just click the "Choose your .contact file to view" button on this page.
2. Your CONTACT file will then be displayed in the browser.
3. Now click on "Save as..." at the top of the page.
4. Then choose the file format (e.g. JPG, PDF, DOCX, TXT, ...) you want.
5. Your file will be converted and downloaded.

CONTACT file format:

To find out what program is needed to open CONTACT files, you need to determine the file format. Often, the file format can be deduced from the file extension or the initial bytes (called the signature). File extension, signature and file format must match; otherwise errors will occur when the file is opened. When there is a problem with a file, the first step to solving it is to determine the file format. In the following you will find our evaluation of the CONTACT files:

The CONTACT extension is quite commonly used. The file itself predominantly uses a uniform format. However, the following two file formats are common:

• 95% of all CONTACT files are associated with Windows Contact files, which internally utilize the well-known XML format. The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a simple text-based format for representing structured information: documents, webpages, data, configuration, books, transactions, invoices, and much more. XML defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. These files are text files, so they contain words and text. CONTACT files are between 1 KB and 68 KB in size. The file type is old but is used even today. The following keywords are characteristic: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>, <c:contact c:Version="1" xmlns:c="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Contact" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> and CreationDate. Administrator.contact is a typical file name. Such files are related to user, admin, guest, dell, home, usuario, owner, blockman, lenovo and gopl, and often contain personal information.

All the rest of the CONTACT files (5%) have different formats. If you want to find out what your CONTACT file contains, drag and drop it onto this page.