Address Book to .csv File

I am using Apple Mail linked to my gmail account and I am looking for an easy way to convert my contact list in Address Book into a .csv file to import into gmail. Recently, all of my emails have ended up in the Spam folder because I do not have a contact list at my gmail account. You can import .csv files into gmail but I don't want to recreate all of my contacts.

Thank you, merci, gracias!!!
I went through this a couple of years ago and somebody wrote a program for me, but I lost it. Here it is online.
For my purposes, since I'm using MS Excel for Mac is that I select the csv Tab and click add header line. I then rename my .csv file .txt. I then open it in Excel letting Excel know it's a tab deliminated file.
Voila!!
MBee

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