Problem Importing Contacts from CSV to Outlook 365 Home Premium

I have exported contacts from gmail to Outlook CSV format, unable to import to Outlook 365. Error suggests:
There was a problem importing your contacts.
Phone numbers and websites can only contain English characters (a-z or A-Z), numbers (0-9), and specific symbols (such as @). Please try again.
I exported from Outlook 365 a CSV file and column by column copy/value pasted the data from the gmail generated file to the Outlook 365 (People) CSV and saved. I also searched for any such vaguely referenced trouble spot character and removed anything
that feel out of description (I didn't find anything obvious)
characters left in place on emails were (underscore _), characters left in several phone numbers were (comma's , (pause prompts)). I may have a phone number or 2 that also contain the English character "x".
Please help

Hi,
Make sure you exported the Gmail contacts as Outlook CSV format.
In addition, you can also try exporting the contacts as the vCard format, test if it can be imported into Outlook properly.
If you deleted the column of phone, import the contacts into Outlook, will the same error show up?
If you have an Outlook.com account, you can try import the contacts to Outlook.com, create the Outlook.com account in Outlook, after the contacts sync completes, move the contacts to the target account.
Regards,
Melon Chen
TechNet Community Support

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