[X-Newbies] Excel to Address Book.

[Brian Durant]

Thanks a lot for the feedback Charles. It still amazes me from time to
time how easy and logically you often can do relatively complicated
things with a Mac :-)

Cheers,

Brian

On 11/5/06, Charles Howse <chowse at charter.net> wrote:
>
> On Nov 5, 2006, at 4:47 AM, Brian Durant wrote:
>
> > Hi again,
> >
> > I have just received a project where I need to take a fair amount of
> > institutional contact info (Company name, address, telephone, website,
> > etc.) from three Excel files, hoover it out, create a new Address Book
> > category based on the Excel file name and then place the contact info
> > from the Excel file under the new Address Book category. Does anyone
> > have an idea how to do this? I was thinking Apple Script or via
> > Filemaker, but as I don't have Filemaker and I know very little about
> > Apple Script, I am pretty much at a loss.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Brian
>
> You can export the data from Excel as a .csv file (Comma Separated
> Values), then import it into Address Book.
> Look up the topic "Importing Contacts into Address Book" in the
> Address Book Help.
> There is also a forum for Mail & Address Book on the Apple site.
> http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=753
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Charles
> http://bubbabbq.homeunix.net
>
>
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