Hopefully, somebody here can help me, as I can't get my head around what's going on with my contacts.

I use Skype and log into Skype using my Microsoft login. I use Skype from my PC as my main telephone, calling telephone network numbers here and abroad.  Nearly all of my contact details are in my Windows Live Mail contacts and thus by synching in the "People" section of Outlook.com.

I would like to be able to see in Skype, all of the contact information that I have in the People section of my Outlook.com (or in the contacts of Windows Live Mail). That would enable me to, for example, call somebody on Skype using the telephone number that I have in my Outlook.com "People" section.

But when I log into Skype (even after unlinking and relinking it to my Microsoft account), all I see are a few contacts that I added by hand into Skype or that I used to have in (MS) Instant Messenger. The vast majority of my "People" contacts and, importantly for Skype, their telephone numbers are not available to me.

I cannot seem to import the contacts from Outlook.com or Windows Live Mail.

I did try exporting some contacts from WLM as *.vcf files, but when I used the "Restore contacts from file..." function in Skype, it accepted the file, but their contact did not appear in my Skype contact list. Outlook.com will only export to a CSV file, which Skype doesn't seem to want to accept.

I even installed the Skype Plugin for my browser, in the hopes that I could use the Outlook.com interface to make the calls through Skype... but it seems that I can only make such calls from within the Messaging section of Outlook.com - and for some reason most of my "People" don't appear in that section.

Those few contacts that did appear in the Messaging section, did not offer the Skype call option if they were off-line... but since I use my Skype calling as my telephone, I also need to be able to make Skype calls to people by calling their telephone number, even when they're offline.

It occurred to me, that Outlook.com must be holding a separate contact list for Messaging, so perhaps I should try to add all of the contacts in my "People" section of Outlook.com to the Messaging section... but I can't seem to see a way of doing this automatically. Apparently, I need to invite each email address individually, which would be a major bind.

So can somebody tell me, how I can easily get all of the Name and Telephone Number details from my "People" section in Outlook.com (or from my contacts in Windows Live Mail) into my Skype interface, so that I can call their numbers?

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