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title: "Uploading Contacts Into Kenect If list is over 1,000 contacts"
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This article outlines how to upload contacts into Kenect if your file is over 1000 contacts

1. open your ‘.csv’ file. (*This document will walk you through the process as if operating out of Microsoft Excel*)

- If you need to download your contacts from Kenect, navigate into ‘Contacts’, from the ellipsis symbol on the ‘all contacts’ page click on ‘Download CSV’

![image-20250318-175032.png](media://0cfb8190-2510-482d-a382-2063f57c88d2)

2. Once downloaded, open in excel and Click into Column A

![image-20250318-175047.png](media://6e49a1ad-7830-4dce-b181-2752eccbf136)

3. Right click the boarder of the two tabs and add 2 blank columns
4. Click data tab, then text to columns

![image-20250318-175057.png](media://94bd9bd8-a6e0-4f5c-9ce9-4388e3631436)

5. Choose "Delimited" and Click Next
  1. Select Space as the delimiter.
  2. Click Next → Finish.

![image-20250318-175114.png](media://0ec1162f-f460-4b50-8fbd-d9ca8b5e8c98)

![image-20250318-175145.png](media://d488463d-1e4b-45b8-bcb6-d8c9c04a5357)

6. Change the names of columns A and B to ‘First Name’ and ‘Last Name’
7. Anything after the Phone Number column (normally *column C*) can be deleted.

![image-20250318-175203.png](media://f5fe8fd8-9dd3-45fd-a210-2cace89c27df)

8. If your list is larger than 1,000 contacts select the first 999.

![image-20250318-175216.png](media://3f3b51a3-b027-4513-b749-6be91551bcf0)

9. Copy (ctrl + c)

10. Click new sheet

![image-20250318-175231.png](media://9b710c92-755c-45b5-8259-a3c55b798492)

11. Right click the new page and click move or copy

![image-20250318-175251.png](media://6ece4142-d107-44e5-8ee9-d63c9e33dcb3)

12. From the dropdown in the new window Click ‘(new book)’ then ‘OK’

![image-20250318-175311.png](media://e61f69ff-0f08-4e45-9d0d-a6e0e03c1f0e)

13. Click ‘File’

![image-20250318-175325.png](media://53a0585c-c875-4994-a939-6e41948648e5)

14. After clicking ‘File’, next click on ‘Save As’

![image-20250318-175349.png](media://d6a1b106-3425-4e11-aa43-88d78b048775)

12. Change the file type to ‘CSV’ (*comma delimited*)

![image-20250318-175400.png](media://444a8907-89f0-4682-b4bd-35e57d3f1915)

13. After saving you can now upload list into your Kenect account, when uploading to ensure no confusion as to which list is which if you have multiple make sure to name it if it is within a group.