HT1245 copy contact from all to personal address book

Whenever someone sends contact details to my iPhone, Contacts defaults the save to All Contacts, but won't add the contact to my personal address book. How do i copy a contact from the All Contacts directory to my personal address book using the iPhone only? Thus far it has been necessary to sync contacts through iTunes and then copy the vcf, but there must be an easier, more direct method … surely there must …
Can someone help please?
Many thanks

Ninety five percent of my customers are real estate agents. So have been hanging on to their 10-12 year old XPs. Ones with Outlook kept using it with the Win7 upgrades or new machines.
I did import one Outlook.pst file with lots of grouped addresses recently while it was still on the XP machine and didn't have this problem with it. Copying the TBird profile to Win8.1 was not a problem.
I suppose it is only characterized by OE and since OE is going away perhaps best to just forget the problem.

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