Contacts 8 into Numbers 3

I'd like to paste a group from my Contacts into a Numbers spreadsheet. There are a lot of good tutorials online (this one, for example) on how to do this with earlier versions of these two applications, but they don't seem to work with the ones on my Mac. I am running:
Mac OS 10.9.5
Numbers 3.2 (1861)
Contacts 8.0 (1371.2).
All the tutorials I encountered —again, for earlier configurations— say simply select the desired contacts in Contacts and drag them to a new Numbers document. When I do that I get a colossal mess. As best I can figure this out, all the headings from Contacts line up along the top —as you might hope— and then, much of the time, the corresponding information fills in below, nicely.
Or nearly. The first heading in Contacts is 'Image.' The second, at least as it imports to Numbers, is 'Last Name.' If I have a photo in a given contact, it fills in under the 'Images' column and everything else also fills in as it should. But if I don't have a photo, the contact's last name fills in in the 'Images' column and then the contact's first name goes in the 'Last Name' column, etc. with everything being one column off .
I also end up with all the headings, even the ones I don't want, but beggars can't be choosers. I tried assigning column headings before dragging contacts and that just created a bigger mess.
Am I doing something wrong? At least one thread I found said that some features have been taken out of this version of Numbers. But, really, these are both Mac apps; could they possibly have become less compatible?
Martin

Hi Martin,
That's a bug in Numbers 3 that has been there for quite a while. If you can, could you report it (perhaps giving a link to this thread) by going to Numbers > Provide Numbers Feedback in your menu? If enough people report it, maybe some priority will be given to fixing it (says he, hopefully).
Meanwhile, a possible workaround is to first select and import only contacts that don't have images (I think you will then have to "shift" the header row over). Then drag over the ones with images. Then align the two imports.
If you are doing a lot of this, then ApplesScript can help. But that's probably not worth the effort if you are only doing it only occasionally.
SG

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1. Copy/paste the script below into AppleScript Editor.
2. Select the cards in Contacts that you want.
3. Click the green run button in AppleScript Editor.
4. Click a cell in Numbers and command-v to paste the data in.
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--Places tab-separated Contacts data on the system clipboard for pasting into a table
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                                        set thisEmail to thisEmail & value of item j of emailProperties & "   "
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                              set tsvData to tsvData & thisName & tab & thisPhone & tab & thisStreet & tab & thisCity & tab & thisZip & tab & thisEmail & return
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set the clipboard to text 1 thru -2 of tsvData -- remove trailing return
                    tell application "System Events" to display dialog "Click in cell and <command-v>" buttons {"OK"} default button 1
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                    tell application "System Events" to display dialog "Select at least one card in Contacts and run again" buttons {"OK"} default button 1
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end tell
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