Bulk add Contacts to address book

I have a bunch of contact information in an excel file I would like to add these contact to my address book.  I have tried to save the excel file as a csv and also a tab delimited file so I could import it, but address book would not read the files (they where grayed out during the import).

Unfortunately, there´s no way to do this in bulk

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