How can I copy a mailing list into address book without having to type them individualy

In Address Book you can construct a "Distribution List" and use it to create, well, a distribution list with as many addresses as you like. If you're going to be doing this kind of thing frequently, I would invest in MS Office 2011 for Mac and use Outlook to construct Contact Groups. Much more intuitive (to me, at least).

Clinton

Richard,

Unfortunately, you have to add them one at a time - wait a sec... oh, yeah, if the contact is in your contact list it will 'auto-fill' as you begin to type. So if I want Wendy Whatshername, all I have to do is type Wen and the contacts will show up for you to select and auto-fill the name and email address.

Hope this helps,

Clinton

If you can export the list with each field of a particular person separated by commas, you can import that into Address Book (File>Import)

The file would look something like this:

firstname,lastname,emailaddress,phone,street,city,state,zip

You'll then have to create a group and move all those contacts into the group.

I can't remember if Address Book does a "Last Import" thing like iPhoto, but if it does, that will make moving them quicker.