**How to bring contacts into WrkLst from a file exported from your phone, your computer or another address book — choosing who comes in, and without creating duplicates. This article describes WrkLst 10.**

## What you can import

A contacts file in **.vcf** format (a vCard file), which is what a phone, a computer's contacts app or another address book exports. WrkLst reads every entry in it; nothing is created until you confirm.

## Where to find it

Open Settings → General Account → **Import** and choose **Open contact import** under **Contact import**, or choose **Import contacts** straight from the Contacts screen.

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## How an import runs

1. **Choose file** and pick the .vcf file. WrkLst reads it and tells you how many entries it found: how many are **new** and how many are **already here**.
2. The whole list appears before anything is created. Search it with **Search contacts**, and tick the people you actually want; **Select all shown** and **Deselect all shown** work on the current search result. Each entry says what will happen to it:
   * **New** — a contact will be created.
   * **Already here as …** — the person is already in WrkLst and is left out. If their card carries nothing you do not have yet, it says **Nothing new**.
   * **Can be merged** — the person is already in WrkLst, but their card carries something your record lacks: a second phone number, an e-mail address, a postal address. The entry says exactly what it adds.
3. Choose **Import selected**. WrkLst reports how many contacts were created and how many were merged, and **Go to contacts** takes you to them.

## Duplicates and missing details

Anyone already in WrkLst is recognised and left out, so an import never doubles your address book. Where an imported card holds a detail missing from the existing contact, WrkLst can add just that — and it never changes what is already there. The imported data of a contact stays visible on its record under **Imported data**.

## Larger imports

If your contacts live in a spreadsheet or in another software's export, we help you move them over — contact [support@wrklst.art](mailto:support@wrklst.art). Works are imported separately; see [Automatic Import: let AI do the data entry](/hc/wrklst-docs/articles/1786371832-automatic-import-let-ai-do-the-data-entry).

## Related articles

* [Create a New Contact](/hc/wrklst-docs/articles/1767342760-create-a-new-contact)
* [Sync your WrkLst contacts to your phone and computer](/hc/wrklst-docs/articles/1790900010-sync-your-wrklst-contacts-to-your-phone-and-computer)
* [Automatic Import: let AI do the data entry](/hc/wrklst-docs/articles/1786371832-automatic-import-let-ai-do-the-data-entry)
* [Lists](/hc/wrklst-docs/articles/1767343209-lists)