Getting contacts into Skype for Business

Hi there,
I'm trying out the new Skype for Business, all installed great but I would like to import my previous contacts from my old Skype account.  How can I do this?  I appear to have no contacts at current.
Nick.

It's okay I see now, I need to put them into my Office 365 contacts. As this is a new account there aren't any so I will use Outlook to export from my old account and then again to import them into my new account.

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