How to Export Contacts and Email Addresses from a Free Hotmail Account

The study of trade routes — such as the ancient silk road, for example, or the Manila Galleon, but also modern migratory routes, for example — is called dromography (from Greek δρομος (dromos), running or race, and γραφειν (graphein), to write). So if you explore the labyrinthine paths by which names and addresses can be exported (bootlegged almost) from Hotmail, you can with some justification call yourself a dromographer:
›› Are your contacts trapped in Hotmail, and do you have to type them all anew if you need them anywhere else? Not if you export them smartly using a print view and your spreadsheets program. Here's how.