Can't accurately update Address Book from LinkedIn vCard

Hi everybody,
Unlike when I used Outlook for Windows, I have had trouble updating Address Book with LinkedIn vCards. If a contact leaves one company for another and I try to update his information, the new company name and title end up being put into the notes field in Address Book. I asked LinkedIn this and got the following reply:
Thanks for reaching out to us - Sorry to hear that importing your contacts isn't working.
Unfortunately, this feature works best with Windows products, like Outlook and was not designed for use with Apple products.
I find this unacceptable and would love any suggestions as to a plugin or extension to make this work.
Thanks!
Doug

I'm not sure if this will help.
I have saved some sheets in csv format from Excel, but it seems that the import function from the address book doesn't accept the csv extension.
Saving the data in a txt file did solve the issue.
Make sure that your file extension is .txt and that the data is tab of semicolon delimited.

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