Importing Address Information From Microsoft Word

I have a list of address in Microsoft Word that I want to import into Address Book. Here is an example of the format of the addresses:
Hy-Drive Technologies Ltd.
4-6705 Millcreek Drive Mississauga, Ontario
L5N 5M4
(905) 542-3024
[email protected]
http://www.hy-drive.com/main/default.asp
There is a space in between each address entry. In the document there are 100 addresses. How on earth to get this stuff into address book? I thought to paste into excel and some how arrange the data so it could then be imported into address book in the form of a csv file. However, I can't figure out how to arrange the addresses in Excel so it would work.
Any ideas?
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In Word: Edit your addresses so they all have the same number of lines, but if this might result in a blank line in the middle of a set of details put in "dummy" or some similar placeholder.
Edit/Find.
In the Find box type "^p^p". Click Replace. In the replace box type "zzzzzz". Click replace all. This will take out the blank line between sets.
In the Find box put "^p". In the Replace box put "^t". Click replace all. This will put a tab between each field in an address set.
In the Find box put "zzzzzz". In the Replace box put "^p". Click replace all. This will restore the end-of-line marker between each set of details.
If you put in any "dummy" in the Find box put "dummy". Delete the contents of the replace box. Click replace all. Close the Find/Replace dialog.
File/Save as. Set the format to Text Only. Give the file a name which ends .txt (eg addies.txt). You now have a tab-delimited file in which there is a tab between each piece of information in a set and a return between each set.
When you import it into Address Book you should get a dialog that allows you to set the correspondance between your various pieces of information (city, phone, email etc) and the corresponding Address Book fields.
AK

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