I am trying to drag and drop my contacts into a numbers spreadsheet but it won't let me, can someone help?

Hi
So for my first project in numbers, I wanted to create a spreadsheet of all my contacts. I read the manual, watched a video tutorial, and tried just about everything I could think of, but I am un successful with dragging and dropping the contacts into a blank template. Can anyone help?

Thanks for the feedback. You said you watched a video. Was it Gary's tutorial at MacMost.com? I really enjoyed that one.
Jerry

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