exporting contacts FROM Outlook 365

"You may follow the steps below to Export the Outlook contacts:

Open Outlook, click File, Open and export and then click Export to a file."

This seems to be a standard problem for the 'Office 365' Administrators.  It appears that SteveShore above is trying to export contacts from Office 365 OWA, (which is not possible) and Deepa Raj immediately gives instructions for Outlook desktop client.  Not all of us have the Outlook client, we would rather our staff not use the desktop client, but the Office 365 OWA. 

Microsoft really needs to make a division just for Office 365 OWA and have some support staff that understand the benefits and restrictions of the Office 365 environment.  If a question comes in with Office 365, don't answer with Outlook client and assume the issue is resolved.  I am really frustrated with wading through ten topics on Outlook client when I search for Office 365 issues.  It wastes my time and slows down any resolution. 

Second rant, when will Microsoft start listening to it's user administrators and start adding feature we need and not something your engineers think is 'really cool'....  Give us the ability to import and export contacts, add group members from a file, download mail trace reports, etc.  Listen to your audience and concentrate on improving the administration process.

2 Good questions for which I have no answers but eagerly await the answers for as I'm using Office 365 as well and there is no such option to export. As someone has already commented; it's inexcusable for this problem to have persisted for over a year (or 2). Life changes happen.

I think the root of the problem for so many of us is that there are so many different variations, and we're not exactly sure what to call each one. The email program that I am using for school is a web-based Office 365 Outlook, not desktop, no file tab, version, no admin privileges, and on a strictly guarded server network. I am still not able to export.

I tried to use Steff_redd's suggestion of importing to 2010 Desktop version, but I was unable to connect to the server to configure server settings and download. And to be honest, I don't want all those emails downloaded to my desktop.

I see your suggestion for the Outlook.com version, which I have for my old Hotmail account, and can see the "Export for Outlook and other services", but that option simply doesn't exist in the Manage Tab of Web Office 365.

I just want to be able to transfer my contacts list for our club newsletter to another student, Is that so hard to ask of Microsoft?

Also, how can this thread be changed from Answered back to Unanswered, because obviously the problem persists, and the person who 'answered' it, gave the wrong advice.

This worked for me, too, after over an hour of sweating and going crazy trying to export my emails directly.  I have no choice, I have graduated from my university and need to export my emails because the school is going to turn off my access soon.  It is just inexcusable that a user should come up with this rather than Microsoft.  Boo, Microsoft!