Removing Exchange account without losing its contacts

Hello,
I used to sync my iPhone contacts (work & personal) through my corporate Exchange server.
I no longer work for the company no have no more access to the Exchange account.
When I try to remove that Exchange account, it says that all contacts will be deleted!
How can I back up (on my PC and/or in Gmail for instance) and continue using these contacts on my iPhone?
Thanks for your help.
Luc

The iPhone's Mail app stores all email recipients in a list of previous recipients. The email address autofill feature pulls from the contacts or address book and from the list of previous recipients. Different from the Mail.app on a Mac, there is no access to the list of previous recipients to add a previous recipient to the Address Book or Contacts, or to remove a previous recipient from the list.
The only way to clear the previous recipients at the present time is by restoring the iPhone with iTunes as a new iPhone or not from the iPhone's backup.
You still have access to the list of previous recipients when addressing a message and I seriously doubt there are many that send email to all Exchange contacts or to all company contacts or addresses.

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