Transfer phone list to a new phone

I have just got a new Nokia Lumia 520 Windows phone which has a micro SIM card and I am have great dificulty in transferring my phone list from my old Motorola Defy with a standard SIM card. I have got so far as having the names and numbers in a .csv file on my PC and I have also entered them in Outlook. I have opened an, outlook.com account which supposedly makes it easy to transfer them but I just don't get it.
I should be grateful for any help.
The alternative is a trip to Inverness for the Nokia shop to do it, or transfer all 173 entries by hand.
Thanks
ywy2
ps. I haven't activated my new SIM card yet as I am reluctant to do so until I am sure that I can transfer the phone list

I don't have an Outlook.com account but I do have a BT Business supplied Office 365 account which logs in to something similar. Once logged in I click the cog icon (Settings) & there's an option to Import Contacts - very straightforward. Once that's done, you should be able to log into the same Outlook.com account from your new phone & the contacts should be available.

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Originally Posted by Bobinovich

I don't have an Outlook.com account but I do have a BT Business supplied Office 365 account which logs in to something similar. Once logged in I click the cog icon (Settings) & there's an option to Import Contacts - very straightforward. Once that's done, you should be able to log into the same Outlook.com account from your new phone & the contacts should be available.

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Thanks Bob, I will try that. I did something similar and it Outlook was only interested in email contacts, not phone numbers. But I will have another go in the morning.

You might need to do a custom import & map the fields manually. Also while I was in Outlook.com I noticed you have to click the People heading at the top first then the settings cog for import contacts!

I did that but as I said, it only imported the names. Then I found there was no select all function and I had to delete all 154 names individually! "Map the fields manually!" You know my capabilities, no point insaying something like that to me!
Thanks any, and have a good New Year.

I don't know the phones concerned, but couldn't you pair them on BlueTooth, then transfer?

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Originally Posted by BrianJM

I don't know the phones concerned, but couldn't you pair them on BlueTooth, then transfer?

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Thanks BrianJM.
Got the phones paired but the Motorola came up with there wasn't permission to do the transfer. Vodaphone help said the two were incompatible systems, but I wasn't convinced that he knew enough about it, his best shot was either go to Vodaphone, Inverness, or transfer manually one by one. Couldn't find a way to talk to a person at Motorala.
I Googled the phone number of Vodaphone Inverness today, but you get the National helpline, finally spoke to a very helpful person who not only gave me the direct phone number but the Managers name. Phoned the number, got an ansaphone, asked to be called back and wasn't.
On the bright side I have a text message asking me to rate their recent service, which I am not filling in just yet!

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Well after lots of searching I gave up and transferred the numbers manually. It seems there are two problems. The first is that my new phone has a micro SD card so the old one cant be inserted, and the old phone has phone list while the new phone has a contacts list with includes among many other things, phone numbers with lots of different descriptions like home, work ,mobile and more so there would have to be some tricky programme to put the numbers in the right place.
Thanks for helping everone.

I used the app "bump" to transfer contacts from iphone to samsung

However they have now closed the app which isn't ideal