Imagine that contacts and emails were lost due to virus or formatting, and you need quickly restore them with minimum efforts from web-mail service or if there is a simple need to have contactlist available, but PC is not reachable. Solution can be quiet easy and quick, let's regard as an example GMail web-server.

For the purpose of restoring contacts and then importing them to Outlook, perform the following steps:

1. Log in to GMail.

2. On the left pane navigate to Contacts section. Click on it.

3. On the opened page click "Export" button:

4. Then configure options how you want it to be exported, and whether all the contacts should be exported:

5. After clicking on "Export" button you'll be prompted to save the file with the contacts.