How do I export my Mac address book contacts from OS 10.10 to Excel

How do I export my Mac address book contacts to an excel spreadsheet?

Sorry, forgot to test it when I had 10.6 available.
I don't know that they're interchangeable, but it seems the relevant files & folders are...
For Address Book, quit AB...
Files...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.abd.plist
Folders...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/com.apple.AddressBook/
So back those up if you try replacing them, and of course Permissions may or may not need adjusting on the swap.

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