Importing Contacts into Numbers?

Does anyone know why each time I drag a contact into numbers it creates a new Table for each contact. This adds lots of unnecessary additional columns, all redundant from the first import. Would like to just have each contact import onto the one page and into appropriate fields. I spoke to Apple about this and they seem to think it's either a bug or nobody has ever wanted to do this even though this option is detailed in the help info in numbers.

You probably want to use the Feedback feature of Numbers (under the Numbers menu) to report this bug. Meanwhile, I can offer a work around. Discovering that each drag/drop resulted in a new table, I selected 2 contacts - they were placed in Numbers in a single table. So your work around is to create a group in Address Book and then select all the members of the group at once. This is feasible as long as you don't anticipate adding people to the sheet later.

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How can I get my contacts into a Numbers spreadsheet, please help since the OS X mavericks upgrade I cant drag them and I dont know how to get them into the spreadsheet now can anyone help

And here's a way to get some actual information from Contacts into Numbers 3.0.
1. Copy/paste the script below into AppleScript Editor.
2. Select the cards in Contacts that you want.
3. Click the green run button in AppleScript Editor.
4. Click a cell in Numbers and command-v to paste the data in.
That should result in something like this:
Here is the script:
--Places tab-separated Contacts data on the system clipboard for pasting into a table
--usage: select one or more contacts in Contacts, run, select a cell in a table and paste
tell application "Contacts"
          set {tsvData, contacts} to {"", selection}
          if selection is not {} then
                    set tsvData to "Name" & tab & "Phones" & tab & "Street" & tab & "City" & tab & "Zip" & tab & "Emails" & return --header row
                    repeat with thisPerson in contacts
                              set {thisPhone, thisEmail} to {"", ""}
                              set {thisName, thisID} to {name, id} of thisPerson
                              set {thisStreet, thisCity, thisZip} to {street, city, zip} of the first address of thisPerson
                              set phoneProperties to properties of phones of thisPerson
                              repeat with j from 1 to (count of phoneProperties)
                                        set thisPhone to thisPhone & value of item j of phoneProperties & " "
                              end repeat
                              set emailProperties to properties of emails of thisPerson
                              repeat with j from 1 to (count of emailProperties)
                                        set thisEmail to thisEmail & value of item j of emailProperties & "   "
                              end repeat
                              set tsvData to tsvData & thisName & tab & thisPhone & tab & thisStreet & tab & thisCity & tab & thisZip & tab & thisEmail & return
                    end repeat
set the clipboard to text 1 thru -2 of tsvData -- remove trailing return
                    tell application "System Events" to display dialog "Click in cell and <command-v>" buttons {"OK"} default button 1
          else
                    tell application "System Events" to display dialog "Select at least one card in Contacts and run again" buttons {"OK"} default button 1
          end if
end tell
This is not as nice as the old vcard drag and drop import. It's a simple example and probably needs some customizing because there are so many different ways people store information in Contacts. But this approach can meet most needs, if it's not convenient to leave the data in Contacts and link to it.
SG

How can I drag contacts into numbers like the old version?

How can I drag contacts into numbers like the old version?

Copy and paste works. But drag and drop is also back in version 3.2. It works well here. Just drag and drop onto the canvas.Make sure you've upgraded to version 3.2 as earlier versions of Number 3 did not support drag and drop from Contacts.
Note that the column headers are misaligned if you are dragging contacts that do not contain an image. But the information in the body of the table drags in correctly.
SG

Problem exporting contacts into Numbers

I am able to drag and drop contacts into Numbers where it creates a table with all the information.
However, in the Address book several people have multiple 'work' phone numbers, or multiple 'emails'. This means that when the contact is dragged into Numbers, Numbers only recognises the first 'work' number, and doesn't include the second 'work number'.
For example, Bobby has work number: 0758694338557 and another work number: 0795338663546. Both of these are present in contacts, but when dragged into numbers, only 0758694338557 is visible under the column(field) titled work number.
Any suggestions on how I can get two 'work' numbers under the same field name, to be present in Numbers

Check to see if any columns are hidden by opening the contextual menu for any column:

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My i phone was stolen and now I need to upload my contacts to my i cloud from my I tunes...any ideas how to import contacts into i cloud, with either i tunes or with old iphone?

If you have the contacts on the phone you can sync the phone to the computer. The contacts should then show in address book. At this point you can sync the address book data to iCloud. You have to make sure the iCloud account is setup on the computer and this will not work unless the computer is running 10.7.2 of course. There are other ways to add the contacts to iCloud like through the phone but the phone must be running iOS5. If it is you can simply add the cloud account to the phone and toggle the contacts slider. You will get a prompt to keep or delete the contact data. Of course you keep. Then you will get a prompt to merge at which point you do. This should merge the contacts on the phone with iCloud. Hope this helps.

Activating Importing Contacts into new Skype ID

Hi,
I just set up a new Skype ID as the old one didn't really reflect my business anymore. So I backed up my contacts and then imported them into my new Skype which seemed to work but now all my contacts show as not accepted.
I have tried selecting them and re-requesting from the menu but this doesn't work, they are simply not seeing these requests, and it is not because they have ignored the first attempt, they are just not getting them at all.
I have tried deleting the contacts and resubmitting a request but again, no luck.
How do I get over this block where Skype believes it has sent a request but it hasn't?
I am runing the latest version of Skype and these people are all approved contacts in my old account and in the main, do want to be in my new account.
I have even asked some to request me under my new ID but their requests don't seem to get to me either, it seems that all the people I imported from my old ID have been blocked (even though they do not appear in the block list).
Ok, any help would be very appreciated, thanks.
Tony

How do I import contacts into new Skype account? Tony

Help, I can not drag and drop address book contacts into numbers.

i have read the manual. watched videos on youtube, but I can not drag and drop address book contacts into numbers or pages. I upgraded to Numbers 09. set up the fields as stipulated, but when I drag a contact to the numbers canvas it just bounces back to address book. I tried reinstalling 09 thinking it was a faulty install. no luck. Have tried dragging to balnk part of canvas, to the table, and to a table with fields, no luck.
Thank you.

Could be a preferences setting. See Jerry's post in this thread.
Regards,
Barry

Import Contacts into Group

1st of all, besides paying for MobileMe, there isn't any way to sync Address Book across Macs, is there? I will be upgrading from Leopard to Snow Leopard any day now... any pleasant surprises in this regard?
So assuming no to my above questions, is there a way to import contacts into a certain group? I use groups in Address Book like different phone books to organize contacts. I need to import & merge a group on 1 Mac to another. Right now when I do this, it puts them in All. This means I would have to search the newly imported contacts one by one and manually drop them into the group.

How do you get the vCards into their own folder when importing? I just noticed there is a Group called Last Import that has my import test contacts in it. Looks like I can shift click all those contacts & drag them into the group.
Now if I had 2 separate groups on the other computer that needed to be kept separate & dragged into 2 separate groups on the new computer, how would I handle that?

Can I download all my contacts into numbers?

I want to create a contact list from my ipad contacts list. Can I move them as a group into numbers [or similar] rather than copying them over one by one.

Welcome to the Apple Community.
Being able to download them all in one action would somewhat negate the purpose of iTunes match, you might as well just sync everything from iTunes and be done.
You can however download the complete catalogue from an artist or a whole album at a time, in addition to single tunes.

Import data into Numbers from web?

Is there a way to import data from the internet directly into Numbers without programming/writing an applescript or using a different program?
Can you do this while using only Numbers and the web?

And how is Numbers to know how to extract the exact data you want from an external source, unless that source is in a format familiar to Numbers, which HTML isn't? For an automated process like this, you will need scripting, and that means learning to program/understand scripts.
For example, here's some HTML code from a web page that includes volume data for one symbol:
<td class="mbi_left" align="left" width="35%">BM&FBOVESPA SA</td><td align="right" width="10%">12.37</td><td align="right" width="10%">0.22</td><td align="right" width="10%">1.81</td><td align="right" width="20%">11,611,700</td><td align="right" width="15%">09/18</td>
Numbers can't interpret this without being told exactly what to extract. Also, Numbers doesn't go out to the web on its own at fixed intervals (as I suspect you may want) without a program telling it what to do. This is just a spreadsheet after all.

Drag and drop from Contacts into Numbers not working - any solutions?

I'm trying to get my Contacts into a Numbers spreadsheet. According to the Help files, I should be able to select the Contacts and simply drag them into a Numbers sheet (after deleting the default Table). I've tried this many times over and the drag and drop feature doesn't seem to be working. I can select the contacts and drag them over, but the little contact card remains red when I drag it into Numbers and never turns green to allow me to drop into Numbers. It's the same whether I'm trying to drag one contact or many contacts at the same time. I've also tried exporting a vcard and then dragging that file from my desktop into Numbers, but that doesn't work either. I've tried quitting and reopening both applications, as well as restarting my computer. I'm running OSX 10.8.3 and have installed all new software updates, so I'm just at a loss for what to try next.
Does anyone have any solutions for this problem, or an alternative way to get my Contacts into a Numbers file?
Many thanks in advance!

When I tried, it put up a dialog asking me if I wanted to allow Numbers access to my Contacts. Is it possible you tried this and dis-allowed it access?
You might check, anyway. Open Security & Privacy System Prefs, select Privacy tab, and select Contacts from the list of items. Is Numbers listed and is it checked?
Another way to get the contact information into the clipboard is to create an Automator workflow like this:
Open Automator and select Workflow from the options presented.
Drag in the above actions and set the properties as you like. For the Get Contact Information action, you must set the export format to Spreadsheet (tabs).
For the new Text File action, I had to set the Encoding to Unicode (UTF-8) or it would fail.
Select all the contacts you want and then click the Run button in Automator. You can then open the text file with Numbers.
If you envision doing this often, start with an application instead of a Workflow and save it somewhere. Then, you can select your contacts and double-click the Application to export the contacts each time.
The benefit of this method is that you can select all the fields you want to include (at least more than is provided in Drag and Drop).

Importing .txt into numbers causes extra unwanted rows solution?

I have a text document that imports into numbers like this:
Name Age Eyes Likes
A B C D
1 Jack 4 Brown Cartoons
2 Playing
3 Laughing
4 Jill 7 Blue Dancing
as you can see, Playing and Laughing are in separate rows. what can i do to the .txt file to make my numbers spreadsheet look like this:
Name Age Eyes Likes
A B C D
1 Jack 4 Brown Cartoons, Playing, Laughing
2 Jill 7 Blue Dancing
thanks in advance.

Run this cript:
--=====
property nb : 3 (* count of fields in a record *)
property liste : {}
--=====
on run
set theFile to choose file "Select the text file" of type {"public.plain-text"}
my nettoie()
set tt to (read theFile)
set tt to my remplace(tt, quote, "")
set tt to my remplace(tt, "; ", "")
set tt to paragraphs of tt
set nbFields to count of tt
set nbRows to nbFields div nb
if (nbRows * nb) < nbFields then set nbRows to nbRows + 1
repeat with i from 1 to nbRows
set itm to item (1 + (i - 1) * nb) of tt
try
repeat with j from 2 to nb
set itm to itm & ", " & item (j + (i - 1) * nb) of tt
end repeat
end try
copy itm to end of my liste
end repeat
set tt to my recolle(my liste, return)
set the clipboard to tt
my nettoie()
end run
--=====
on nettoie()
set my liste to {}
end nettoie
--=====
on recolle(l, d)
local t
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to d
set t to l as text
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
return t
end recolle
--=====
on remplace(t, d1, d2)
local l
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to d1
set l to text items of t
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to d2
set t to l as text
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
return t
end remplace
--=====
Then paste the clipboard in a table of Numbers.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mercredi 11 février 2009 21:12:32)

Problem dragging contacts into numbers

Hello all, and I hope you can help. I'm a relative newbie to the forums (other than lurking occasionally), but quite an experienced Mac user.
I am trying to get contacts into a spreadsheet. I have tried the two methods of (1) dragging individual contacts from Contacts or groups into a table with mapped column names, and (2) dragging contacts or groups onto a blank area of canvas, in Numbers 09. Neither works. Nothing happens.
Can anyone suggest where I'm going wrong?
I'm on Mac OS X 10.8.4 with all software up-to-date.
Thanks in advance,
Keith

Superb thanks, Wayne. Sorted in one. Obvious (well, in retrospect anyway). Now of course I realise what happens when I installed all those apps that asked me if I wanted to allow them to access Contacts and didn't let them...

Import CSV into Numbers under European Settings?

SUMMARY: Anyone know how to import a CSV into Numbers on the iPhone when under European settings?
DETAIL:
The iPhone version of numbers seems to have difficulties reading any CSV if the user's device is on a setting where the decimal separator is a comma (e.g. 12,00) (such as most of Europe). Interestingly the iPad version does not have this problem.
For example HelloWorld.csv containing
Hello,World
imports as all one line rather than in two columns.
UTF8 of UTF16 doesn't seem to make a difference.
Changing the comma to a tab doesn't make a difference. (Numbers won't import .tsv files either.)
Adding quotes to the fields doesn't help.
Suggestions on creating a file that Numbers can import?

On the iPhone, go to Settings, then General, then International, then Region Format. Set that to whatever it is on the iPad and then the CSV file should import the same on iPhone as it does on iPad. Not sure what else it will change, but if you have it changed on your iPad already, maybe it won't be a problem for the iPhone. And you can always change it back after importing the file I guess. Good luck.

Importing contacts into Public Folder email contact list under the folder

I am able to create a public folder and add a blank contacts list
1. How to do I import external contacts into the public folders contact list?
* I imported all external contacts via CSV into the GAL and then manually added all of them to my contacts list. I then moved them form my contacts to the public folders contact list.
There has to be a easier way.
2. How come I can't show the public folders contact list in Favorites? I can see the public folder but not the contacts list in that public folder even after I add it to my favorites.

Hi,
You may export the contacts from the Personal contact folder and then import it to the Public folder.
The following article for your reference:
Export contacts
You can export contacts to a file that can then be imported into other applications, such as Web mail clients, Excel spreadsheets, or database applications.The most common export file format is a comma separated value (CSV) file.
Import contacts
Contacts can be imported into Outlook from other applications or from exported Outlook contacts. These instructions assume that you have already exported the contacts from the other application, such as a Web client, Excel spreadsheet, or database application.
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Thanks.
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