How to mass-edit contacts in Address Book? and how to group them?

Hi
I have many contacts I imported from Excel in csv or I hurriedly added to my Palm cellular, so as many phone numbers have the area code and others dont't. I would like to edit them, to have the area code in all of them. I could do that easily in excel, but a can't find an export option to do that. Who could suggest me a way?
Another thing is that a used smart groups to group my contacts, but I can't assign a color to each group, nor make Mail recognize contacts in incoming or outgoing emails as pertaining to one of those groups.
Helps welcome.
João

There is a shareware application Address Book Exporter which should allow you to export your contacts so that you can edit them in Excel and then re-import them.
No, you can't assign a colour to a group, whether smart or normal. If you would like Mail to colour the messages by group set up a rule for each group in Mail's Preferences/Rules. Each rule would be something like "If sender is a member of group Friends set background colour to green"
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