Contacts

Keep the formatting will not be easy.

Probably the best solution could be to use MSO 2011. Well it will cost you some money but save time and efforts.

I undertand your point.

Let me try some suggestions

I do not know how ADP works. If it is not able to see Pages, you have to find a different approach.

Which kind of files can ADP work with ? Probably TXT os CSV files ?

I found this on Web page of ADP

Easy-to-use, intuitive Mac user experience. Compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5. Quickly import personal photos from iPhoto. The Snapshot Gallery allows you to capture and transfer customized designs and logos onto various projects. Simplify Mailings - effortlessly merge data from Address Book and Mail. Easily import playlists or albums from iTunes onto Media products.

It should be able to use your Addres book.

I see that Contact can print directly Labels which can be also defined according to Avery Standard.

Now the problem is how to put your data from MS Word into Contacts.

I remember I had a similar problem some time ago, and my suggestion was working

Give me half an hour to check in my old posts, And I'll come back to you.

Download Open Office, open your file in the spreadsheet, sort the fields out (it is unlikely they will be perfect) then export it as a .csv file.

Using a converter (many available) convert it to a vcard file and import it to Contacts on your Mac.

This is the link.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3496248?answerId=17345817022#17345817022

I hope you can get some result.

The main point is you can import CSV Files into Contacts, but you have to start with a CSV file which has for each line exactly the same number of "Items" in the right position which they will have into Contacts, creating if necessary empty fields with more commas. I suggest you make some test with a test CSV file with few lines and test the import and the print. Not sure if you can get a CSV Files from Pages. If not you may use Open Office.

The link I send you has some more details but basically is as writter here over.

paieyeagain wrote:

I use NeoOffice, which I think is for this purpose the same as OpenOffice. When I open the file and click File, Export, the only choices offered are .html, .pdf, and .txt.

That is because you are opening it in NeoOffices' word processor instead of the spreadsheet module. CSV is a spreadsheet format, can't generate it in a word processor.

Why ? You should be able to get a CSV file from Open Officie if yoy start from Pages.

WALTER-MILANO-ITALY wrote:

Why ? You should be able to get a CSV file from Open Officie if yoy start from Pages.

Well he has NeoOffice but your point is still valid, and once the csv exists I would suggest that conversion to Contacts's native format is desirable as it avoids all those header/label issues. Online and free converters from csv to vcard are a dime a dozen (less actually). Using one is the simplest.

I agree with you. My suggestion was very complicated: you know.

Unfortunately I ignored the existence of CSV to VCARD converters...

Should be a lot simpler.

Going to support your suggestion with payeeagain.