For that, I sync my phone with my address book. It's a little clumsy, but the info is always there. And it updates both ways. On Dec 22, 2006, at 11:23 PM, nk wrote: > ah, ok... I am the original poster and my end goal is to organize > the data in a way that's meaningful to me for use in my hPDA > > I'm wanting to get away from having all of my important information > all locked away in a box which becomes an impenetrable vault if the > power fails.... > > ...as we in the Pac NW found out last week can happen for extended > periods thanks to the vagaries of weather > > > > On Dec 22, 2006, at 9:16 PM, Daly Jessup wrote: > >> Right. I don't know if my post reached the list, but that was the >> one I recommended too. But I also commented that at least when I >> do it and get the CSV file and open that in Excel, the address >> data (street, city, state, zip) all ends up in one cell, which >> makes it less than idea if someone is wanting to put it into a >> labeling program or something like that. It is not nicely formatted. >> >> So I asked what the original poster is wanting to do with the data. >> >> Daly > > _______________________________________________ > X4U mailing list > X4U at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 >