How To Open VCF File - Online VCF Viewers

Open Vcf File Online & Excel

With these free tools You can open vcf file & view the contacts details. This page has 4 choices, with the best one first. First one is absolutely easy method to open vcf file online for free.

1. Open VCF File Online - Export to Excel

Your Google account can act as online vcf file viewer. Here are the steps to view vcf file with Google.

Goto Google Contact Page.
In menu, click "More" -> "Import"
Browse & choose vcf file.
Click ok.

Google will read the vCard file & display all the contact list details with all fields online in the browser itself. The other possible methods to open vcf file offline in your PC are as follows.

2. Text Editor to Open vCard File

Since this vcf is a non-encrypted file/text format, its content can be viewed from any text editor. Here are the steps to open VCF file.

Open a text editor like Notepad or Text pad.
Click Open File in Menu (or Ctrl + O).
Select the folder path of file to open.
Choose VCF file you want to view.
Click 'Open'.

The text editor will open the vcf file, but it will not be aligned properly or formatted like a table structure. To understand its content, read next section in this topic to understand its syntax and architecture.

3. Open VCF File in Excel:

This is an in-house tool. It was programmed using Excel VBA macro. You can build your own VCF file viewer with just Excel & vba by referring this page below. Read it here --> or Directly buy using this this Offer: Its only 5$ USD - Features unlimited contacts conversion

4. Outlook as VCF Viewer (Not recommended)

It is better to open it using a text editor before trying this method - just to check how many contacts are there in the vcf file.

In Menu click File-> Import/Export
Choose Import a vCard file(.vcf)
Browse folder & choose the vcf file.
Contact will be imported.

Note: With Outlook, you will be able to see only one contact even if the vcard has more than one entry.

How to Open VCF file & Read it? - More concepts

Now, we realized that a simple text editor is enough to open a vcard file. But, how is it possible? It is because, Its stored just as a text format & this file format is not encrypted one. That also mean that it is less secured & anybody can read this file. vCard file uses electronic business card conventions to store & transfer contact details between applications. VCF File Format: Every line in a vCard file in general has 2 parts as given below.

''''''Identifier Part: Data Part
TEL;WORK:
TEL;HOME:
ADR;WORK;PREF:

First an identifier keyword followed by data part & both are separated by a colon delimiter. Few of the identifier are. BEGIN, END, EMAIL, ORG, TITLE, N etc., If you have a sub category in identifier or data, then it will be delimited by a semi-colon as in below table.

How Not to Open VCF file?

Consider you have a vCard or VCF file & you want to see the contents in it. Do not double click on it. If you do, then the file will be opened in MS Outlook app. In most Windows systems, Microsoft Outlook is the default app to open a vcf contact file. Outlook will display only the first contact even if the vCard file has more than one contact. Since it is designed with the consideration that a vcf file can have only one contact. Outlook import/export might be the good option. Whereas, in most Smart phones, a single vCard file can have multiple contact information. Good Reading: Refer this Wiki page to know format or structure of a vCard file and its various versions.