Importing contacts from Word doc to Address Book

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Importing contacts from Word doc to Address Book

Hi

I have a Word document with hundreds of email addresses that I would like to import into a contact card in Address Book. However no matter what format I save it in in Word, Address Book will not recognize it. Is there a way to save a word doc in vCard, LDIF, or any of the other formats that it will recongnize?

Thank you!

IMAC G5, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Jul 8, 2009 1:53 PM

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Answer 1

Jul 8, 2009 6:18 PM in response to eekfreak

Sorry, you can't do that with Word; it was never designed for that. You'd need to export those contacts to a different application that can save them in vCard or LDIF format and then import them into Address Book.

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Answer 2

thomas_r.

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Jul 8, 2009 6:32 PM in response to eekfreak

If you can transfer the data into Excel and then export to a .csv file, or somehow use Word or another app to produce that .csv file, you can import that into Address Book. Here's an example:

Joe,Blow,joe@nowhere.com
John,Jones,jjones@blah.com

Save this in a text file, making sure the file has an extension .csv (otherwise Address Book won't know how to import it). Go to Address Book, choose File -> Import -> Text File and choose the file. You'll get to select which field in the CSV data gets mapped to which field in Address Book before importing.

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Answer 3

Aug 27, 2009 7:12 AM in response to eekfreak

or simply try:

http://homepage.mac.com/phrogz/CSV2vCard_v2.html

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