Importing email addresses from Excel

I have 2 rather large lists of contact information that I want to import into my address book. Is there a way that I can import them all at one time instead of individually.
thanks for the help.

Yes. First make sure the contact list is "clean" - that all names and addresses are in the correct columns. You'll ideally want first and last names in separate columns. Remove any extraneous rows or columns. Save it as a CSV file from Excel.
In Address Book, choose File - Import, and choose the file. It will ask you what fields belong to which columns. You can also choose to ignore the first row, if that contains only column header information. And that's basically it. Check the imported cards afterwards to make sure they're correct - you'll almost certainly have a little bit of clean-up to do.
Matt

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TS1541 I tried importing email addresses from gmail and now my address book is locked up and will not work. Help please.

I tried importing email addresses from gmail and now my address book is locked up and will not work. Do I need to delete my address book software and reinstall? If so, what is the proper way to do this? New to Macbook software. I have tried several things and nothing has helped. I have backed up photos, movies, etc. My addresses are on my iphone so I can sync them later right if I loose my data?
Thanks for your time and expertise,
T.

You can probably resolve this by removing some Address Book preference files rather than deleting your Address Book application.
First turn off Synchronize in Address Book Preferences if you can.
Next restart Address Book and try to export everything to your Desktop.
I have had a play and found my Address Book preference files. In the following ~/Library is the Library within your Home folder. Any numerals may differ on your Mac. Quit Address Book before doing anything with these.
1 - Display details and things set in Address Book Preferences
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.plist
2 - Has no data - not sure what this does
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.abd.plist
3 - Has last sync date - may have more if I used sync
~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.AddressBook.sync.000393735c06.plist
4 - My contact details
/Library/Preferences/AddressBookMe.plist
5 - Individual addresses and groups stored as separate files within:
~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/Metadata
6 - All of these addresses are are also in this single database:
~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/AddressBook-v22.abcddb
If you wish to remove all addresses drag both 5 & 6 to your Desktop.
If you wish to reset preferences drag 1 your Desktop.
Removing 3 may resolve sync issues but I am unable to test this.
If you wish to reset everything drag all except 4 to your desktop.
Apple has an interesting page at: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2481
I hope this helps.

You can import email addresses from:

hi,all:
the following is a web page,when i click [import] ,i want obtain the checked email addresses,could you tell me how to do it ,any ideas i'd appreciated!
You can import email addresses from:
[checkbox] Microsoft Outlook
[checkbox] Outlook Express
[checkbox] MSN Messenger
[ Import]

You want to actually read the address books from those apps from a web page? Good luck, cuz ain't no HTML/JSP you can write that'll do that for you.

How to import email addresses from yahoo

how to import email addresses from yahoo

See:
*http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/contacts/impexp/email/;_ylt=AtR4x2nVc9gwLrhuPWeKFQofUndG
*http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/contacts/impexp/email/contactsimpexp-41.html;_ylt=AmYBdKJeiYVI1vgfvtKf.KRrinpG

Importing a group of names and email addresses from EXCEL to address book

I want to create a new group in my address book, so I can send one email to multiple addresses. I have an EXCEL document that contains the names and email addresses. Is there an easy way to import them into my address book from EXCEL?
Thanks, Teri

Hi,
I'm having the same problem. I'm trying to import 300 addresses from an Excel file into Address Book. The Excel file has been converted to tab-delimited (txt). I've gone through and deleted any extra line breaks within fields, commas, etc in the addresses.
When I go to Address Book and ask it to import the Text file, I get the dialog window showing me the fields it will import, but when I click on "OK", the program just freezes. Also, it tells me in the dialog window that it won't import specific fields like Street 2, City, State or Zip and there is information in all of those fields for every record to import.
I've been working on this for three weeks now and am at my wits end. I have never had a database program be so difficult to work with.
Any ideas?

Can I import email addresses from a contact group into a new email?

Import email addresses? I'm trying to send an electronic invitation to a group of about 50 people. I have to enter each of their email addresses, and rather than typing them one by one, I'm wondering if I can import all of their email addresses from a group I created in my Address Book. I'm sending the invitation through the company's website, nut my email, so the email address does not appear when I start typing their names. Thanks!

Open a new message and start typing the groups name in the 'To' field works for me. Some e-mail providers have limits on how many addressees can be in one e-mail.

Importing email addresses from a text file

I have a db on one of my websites that I maintain for my client. I can download that db as an Excel file. This db has many fields.
Once I download that Excel file I open and sort it for just the email addresses I want. Then I copy and paste those email addresses in plain RTF text file. So, now I have a long list of email addresses. I then have to put a comma after each one and then saved that file.
Here's my question"
What I want to do next is import that RTF list into Mail (somehow) as a group so I can send out a couple of hundred emails at a time to my customers in the Bcc box. And if I understand it correctly, since all those addresses are in the Bcc box those who receive those emails will only see their email address in the To: box.
So how can I do this? How can I take this RTF file bring it into Mail and get this done.
First time on this forum.
Thanks in advance.

Hi Martin
I have been seeking answers on this forum for a problem you will encounter (but may not have yet). Firstly, you will want to import your DB files into AdressBook, not Mail. IN AddressBook you sort your contacts into groups for email or whatever. The Mail Program then uses that data to fill in its fields.
The problem I have been having is that AddressBook seems like it should import, indeed looks like it should do it very simply, but ..... simply doesn't do it when you click the "OK" button.... as you might expect. I have not found the answer here yet, but suspect that its an OS development snafu and must needs be done another way. Some replies seem to suggest a solution at Versiontracker. com
Good luck

Importing Email Addresses from TextEdit Document?

I have been sent over 1000 email addresses to add to my Address Book for mailouts.
The emails have been sent in nothing more than a simple text document, with each email on its own line. It's not a vCard or a CSV or anything like that. Just straight up addresses sent via email.
What would be the easiest way to add these email addresses to Address Book?
Thanks!

If there are commas separating the values (John,Doe,[email protected]) then the file extension should be .csv. If there are tabs (John Doe [email protected])(here I have used spaces instead of tab; it should be a real tab) the extension should be .txt. But it your file has only one field ([email protected]) then Address Book won't know how to handle it. In that case pull it into Excel, fill the 2nd column with rubbish, and save it as csv. When you get the AB import dialogue tell it not to import the second column.
AK

Importing email addresses from 10.4.11 to 10.6.2

I have a new iMac 27" and I have successfully imported my Address Book v-cards from my G3 laptop. I would also like to import all my email settings. In my old Mail when I begin to type an address it gives me a drop down menu with choices from all previously sent Mail. Can I bring this information into the new Mail?

Because I was guessing about how the disk was formatted, telling us how the disk is formatted would either confirm or deny my guess.
Here is an article about this requirement;
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1600
Allan

Importing mail addresses from Excel

I just got a list that I'd like to import vice the hard way. Anybody done this before? Is there a "right" format for the spreadsheet that makes it easier?

Hi Russ, either .csv format should work, then try Address Book Importer...
http://homepage.mac.com/sroy/addressbookimporter/

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Fire Fox is a web browser, not an an email provider. If you are using web based email, you have to check on the email providers site and see if there is a way for you to export the contacts to your computer's address book and then you can sync them to the iPad using iTunes.

How can i paste a column of email addresses from an excel spreadsheet into a Mail message To: window

In the past I have been able to send a group email by copying a column of email addresses from an Excel spreadsheet and pasting it into the To: window of an email message I had composed. I simply dragged my cursor down the column containing the email addresses, right-clicked Copy, put my cursor into the To: window of the email, and hit Paste. Mail recognized the list as a series of email addresses and I was able to hit Send and the email went on its way.
Today I tried to do this and after I hit Send I got an error message. It appears to me that Mail did not recognize the list as a series of individual email addresses but saw them as one long address; the error message said it "did not appear to be a valid email address". Has something changed in Mail? I recently installed Mavericks!
I can't be the only one who sends group emails this way. Are others experiencing this problem?

Now Tony, I know you can't hear my tone on a forum post but I was not complaining, simply stating facts . This change brought several people in my office to a grinding halt in a long established workflow that is really rather simple (and I thought was already assumed from the original post above ):
1) Select a set of records in FileMaker Pro 12 and export only their e-mail addresses as a CSV file.
2) Open that CSV file in Excel.
3) Copy the column of e-mail address.
4) paste into the appropriate recipient field in Mail.
5) Send
If I were to complain it would be about Apple's typically opaque approach to updates. There is no granular explanation of why changes were made or even "what" changes were made.
Complaining is futile since Apple is Apple and is unlikely to change, but sometimes it is cathartic to "shout into the void" .
I had thought about doing something with a formula in Excel and your suggestion was simple and helpful. Again, however, it is only a workaround for a long established helpful behavior that Apple has inexplicably broken/removed in Mavericks Mail.
I, and the other posters here, would love to have the capability back rather than have to add previously unneeded steps to our workflows.
Ultimately we may add scripting steps to the FileMaker side to export the address lists with commas inserted already if Apple ends up having permanently removed this feature.

Remove Email Addresses From a Formatted Excel File

I have an excel file that has some formatting in it that I
would like to preserve (some cells have background color, etc). I'd
like to remove a list of email addresses from this file. My first
thought is to use cffile with action read, use the following in a
cfloop: replace(emailAddressToDelete,
excelFileVarCreatedFromCffileRead) and then save it back to excel
format with cffile using action write. I tried this and the Excel
file would not open. The error was:
test.xls cannot be accessed. The file may be read-only, or
you may be trying to access a read-only location. Or, the server
the document is stored on may not be responding.
I'm guessing something went wrong in the process of reading
and writing the files contents and it's not as simple as I want to
make it. Anyone have something to tell me that might help me remove
email addresses from a formatted Excel spreadsheet?

jqcf wrote:
>
> I'm guessing something went wrong in the process of
reading and writing the
> files contents and it's not as simple as I want to make
it. Anyone have
> something to tell me that might help me remove email
addresses from a formatted
> Excel spreadsheet?
>
Yup, .xls is a proprietary encrypted file format and
<cffile.... is not
going to be able to successfully read and modify it's
content. You can
copy it or move it, but not modify it with <cffile...>
If the file format was a plain text such as .txt or .csv you
could do
what you are thinking about, but then you would probably not
have the
proprietary excel formating in the file.
I've heard about the POI library that allows some native
Excel access
and such, but I am not knowledgeable in its ins and outs.

Address Book imported all of my email addresses from Mail without warning

My Address Book suddenly was full of new contacts, every single email I got in the past had it's sender copied to my address book without me importing anything. They were just there. A total mess. I now have to manually erase all the contacts I don't want
How can I prevent this from happening again?

I have no clue. Just opened Address Book today and there they were. stuff like [email protected], mails that I got only once, or five different email addresses from the same contact, each as a single contact file. I am no stranger to isync and address book, never experienced anything like that.
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Giving users control of their own distribution list control to add or remove external email addresses from their list

We are a Exchange 2010 SP3 shop, we have distribution groups (with over 200 email addresses ) from another email system which has only external email addresses (i.e [email protected] [email protected] and so on …..)
We want to import these groups into exchange. we called microsoft, they said create mail contacts for each address and put those in a Distribution Group. I know this will work.
Our goal is to have the user create / maintain / add / remove external their own email addresses (Not the IT department)
There must be many companies whose requirements match ours. Are there third party tools that would handle creation of distribution list?
Any constructive advice would be greatly appreciated ! THank you

I wouldn't give the ability to create contacts to everyone in the environment because it will become mess at some point of time and IT will have to jump to control it
anyway so why don’t from the start...
I would give this to certain people like Leads or Managers of the groups under certain IT Policy so it will be still under control and people
will think before asking their superior to create them and someone gets responsibility to manage these contacts...
Though here is the more specific article on how to delegate creating and editing contacts...
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