Microsoft Access

There is no Mac version of Access, so you need to figure out what you can get out of Access in it's export feature and then see what you can bring over to a Mac database app. Have you chosen one?

For instance this

http://www.google.com/search?q=access%20to%20filemaker%20pro&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

details some of the ways you can convert from Access to FileMaker products.

Regards

TD

Can you export from Access as a vCard format? Or how? Once you know how you can get out of Access it won't be hard to find someway to get into something else.

Regards

TD

Hello Jayne,

If you can export from Access to Excel, then you can import on the Mac either to Microsoft Excel if you've gone out and bought the Mac version, or to Numbers, the spreadsheet in the iWork productivity suite.
Once in Numbers, especially, you can do a mail merge to Pages and thus print your envelopes. If you add extra columns, you can even print personalised greetings for the Christmas cards.

For a while I was in despair as there didn't seem to be any functional inexpensive database for Mac OS X to replace the venerable AppleWorks (and I hated Bento for its insistence on printing out field names!). But since discovering how to print only selected rows and/or columns from a Numbers spreadsheet, I've realised I don't actually need a formal "database" app!

All the best,

Archie

You will have to use Access to export your database in a standard CSV format and then there are a number of tools that will import the data into Address book: http://osx.iusethis.com/search?q=addressbookimport