Export Address Book Features

I'm trying to simplify managing Address Book contacts for exporting to an e-mail marketing application (Campaign Monitor). The problem is that when a contact has multiple e-mail addresses they will be displayed as a separate column in a CSV file but Campaign Monitor will only import one address per contact so we have to manually create 2 contacts if there are 2 e-mail addresses.
Is there a way to export from Adddress Book so that each e-mail address is a separate contact? Probably not but if anyone has any advice on how to manage this better would be great. I have about 3,000 names in Address Book and am adding 1 - 3 new ones every day. Syncing with Campaign Monitor is time consuming.
Thanks

No. You would have to create a second contact card for each email address with only one email address per card.

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Is there anyway to insert Address Book data into other (non-Apple) applications, e.g. Word?
I want to send out some letters and I would like each letter to have the recipiants address at the top of the letter. Even if I could export the data to Excel first would be OK but I only seem to be able to export vCards from Address Book and Excel (nor Word) can read them?
Any help would be appreciated.
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Yink,
you can use some third-party applications to export Address Book data as plain text files (e.g., csv) which you should then be able to import without any problems in Excel and the like.
Some options are:
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http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/
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I want to export my address book to excel file ? Does the Exporter address book for mac was tested with MACOSX Maverick ? Is it going to work ?

For the next person to come along, here are Microsoft instructions for formatting leading Zeros in Excel. http://support.microsoft.com/KB/81518
An image of the phone number being set to text in Excels import Wizard. I don't have the 2007 version available to test, but I do not recall it being any different about a decade ago.
<img alt="" src="https://support.cdn.mozilla.net/media/uploads/images/2014-08-09-20-22-53-96019d.png". and a link to the Microsoft documentation for Excel 2007 indicating that dialog was in Excel 2007 as well. http://office.microsoft.com/en-001/excel-help/text-import-wizard-HP010102244.aspx?CTT=5&origin=HP010099725

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Hello,
I have a problem for exporting address book content. I'd like to export "My Card" to a vcf file and use another application to read it. So I have the following applescript:
*+tell application "Finder"+*
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*+end tell+*
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*+set theFileHandle to open for access theFile with write permission+*
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*+-- write (ASCII character of 255) to theFileHandle+*
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I started digging and guess here is the reason: in the following statement the "vcard of my card" will always return plain text:
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+*vcard (Unicode text, r/o) : Person information in vCard format, this always returns a card in version 3.0 format.*+
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Hello Calvin,
Since your code works under OSX10.4 and fails under OSX10.5, the cause would be the change made in AppleScript 2.0.
Try -
write theVcard as Unicode text to theFileHandle
instead of -
write theVcard to theFileHandle
The read/write commands in AS 2.0 have been change so that they will always interpret the text in system's primary encoding if 'as Unicode text' is not specified in commands' parameter.
cf.
http://developer.apple.com/releasenotes/AppleScript/RN-AppleScript/index.html
Unicode Support
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleScript/Conceptual/AppleScriptLangG uide/
pp. 151-153, 168-169 (of pdf version)
Commands Reference > read, write
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https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2670577
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You need to reinstate the toolbar and menu '''in the Address Book'''. You may also wish to restore these features in the Write window and the message view window.
http://chrisramsden.vfast.co.uk/13_Menus_in_Thunderbird.html
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Export address book group text file?

Hi,
I need to get a group of addresses to a friend who can not use the vcard format. I need to do it in a text file format, but don't see any way in address book to do that.
Can you help?
Meg

The vcards are actually text files - you can read them with BBEdit or Text Editor.
One way to achieve what you want is clumsy but may be workable, depending on the number in the group and what your friend plans to do with them. In Address Book, select the group and go to File/Print. Choose the List style, select the fields to be included and then click the PDF button and save the group as a PDF. Send the PDF to your friend. Friend can open it, click the "Select Text" tool, select the data and copy it off to whatever is to receive it.
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AK

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Verizon Webmail will not acknowledge any other format other than CSV and reject my attempts to use Mac sys tem formats.
Help.... Chan

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Verizon Webmail will not acknowledge any other format other than CSV and reject my attempts to use Mac sys tem formats.
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Hi everyone; I have a problem that should be easy to answer, yet I've been in contact with several IT people and 90 minutes later still have no answer. As the forum heading suggests, I am using Novell's Groupwise Webaccess. I was given an email address through my University employer, and this is the email system that they use. I have ended my contract with the university and have been given 60 days more usage of Groupwise, but I would like to keep at least some of the information in my emails.
Questions:
1) can I export my address book to... anything, really, just so I can keep my contacts?
2) is there any way I can download my emails?
This extra info may or may not be helpful:
I only have access to the web version of Groupwise
I am using a mac
I have other email accounts, including gmail, hotmail, and outlook. I don't mind exporting this info into any of them.
Thank you for your help!

With only webaccess, it is difficult. However, you can use cut and paste or forward the email to another account. You just have to be creative...and willing to put a little elbow grease into it.
--El
Originally Posted by asulpy
Hi everyone; I have a problem that should be easy to answer, yet I've been in contact with several IT people and 90 minutes later still have no answer. As the forum heading suggests, I am using Novell's Groupwise Webaccess. I was given an email address through my University employer, and this is the email system that they use. I have ended my contract with the university and have been given 60 days more usage of Groupwise, but I would like to keep at least some of the information in my emails.
Questions:
1) can I export my address book to... anything, really, just so I can keep my contacts?
2) is there any way I can download my emails?
This extra info may or may not be helpful:
I only have access to the web version of Groupwise
I am using a mac
I have other email accounts, including gmail, hotmail, and outlook. I don't mind exporting this info into any of them.
Thank you for your help!

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