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Drop Down List in Excel 2010 for exported contacts

We are looking to create a drop down list with excel that would contain our contacts in Outlook 2010.  I've exported to a .csv file and placed on Sheet2.  On sheet1 I chose the first column as the data source within the Data Validation section, but this just brings in the first name.

Say I have 100 contacts, I would like to hit the drop down list and choose their name, filling in the cell with relative contact information.

And if this is possible, is there a way to just pull it in from Outlook contacts via script or some other conenction?  

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You need to set the range of your data validation list to the range of your outlook contacts..

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The filling of the rest of the information is done using a VLOOKUP function, like you can see on cells from column E for instance.

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