How to save my address book to icloud?

I've been using a Macbook Pro for many years. I save my address book on it. Recently I received an iPad, which meant updating my Macbook pro and iphone to iOS7 and storing the iPad stuff on iCloud. Suddenly my address book on my phone shows names I deleted 2 years ago and is missing the recent ones. It seems that at some point I saved it to iCloud when Mac.com was dispanded and we were all forced to "switch" to iCloud. Bottom line is that the address book on my computer is correct, the one on iCloud is not. And the iCloud is controlling what goes on my phone or ipad. Very confusing. There must be a way I can import the latest version of my contacts from my computer to the iCloud storage, right? Why can't I find it?

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Does anyone know how to import the address book in its' entirety into iCloud?
Thanks.
debi

Or you can select all your contacts in Address Book, click File/Export/Export vCard. Save the file to your desktop. Open Contacts at iCloud.com then click the Gear icon in the lower left corner to reveal the Import vCard option.
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HT4489 how do you move your address book to icloud contacts?

how do you move your address book to icloud contacts?

In Address book on Mac - right click on the group you want to export.
Select Export Vcard
log in to iCloud and select contacts.
Select group you want to import them into
Bottom left click on the gearbox icon
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Mine populated in about a minute
Hope this helps.

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Nuts isn't it. This seems to have been an issue snce dAY 1. iT FROSTS ME THAT THERE IS NO SIMPLE QUICK WAY TO UPDATE OR CORRECT the data in both programs simultaneously.. Thats why i decided to just put everytning into the i cloud address brook, and let the one other sit and rot.
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aNYONE WILLING TO DUMP SEWAGE ON MICROSOFT AND aPPLE... UNCOOPERATIVE TWITS. - boh should be smacked.

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Roger emailed me, but I've only just seen it and note that Roger seems to have answered your question.
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