Is there a limit for exporting contacts?

[Lorene Romero]

is there a way to export contact information for a 'subset' of the
entire database for use in another program??

i.e. 490 total contacts - subset of 270 for mailing - tried sorting
by 'mailing' category and then Exporting but still got all 490
names/info. Need to get the names and addresses out in a format that
can be sent to another person for use - tab delimited, CSV,
something.....


Thank you so much -Lorene

 

[Diane Ross]

is there a way to export contact information for a 'subset' of the
entire database for use in another program??

i.e. 490 total contacts - subset of 270 for mailing - tried sorting
by 'mailing' category and then Exporting but still got all 490
names/info. Need to get the names and addresses out in a format that
can be sent to another person for use - tab delimited, CSV,
something.....

There is no easy way to do this in Entourage. If you have Entourage 2004,
you can sync with Apple's Address Book then do your export. Apple's Address
Book will allow you to drag a group to the desktop. If you create a group
there called "Friends" for example and drag contacts into that group, and
then drag the group to the desktop, it creates a text file containing the
VCF data for all the contacts. You can then open this file in TextEdit or
another text editing program to do as you wish, although it will be
identified as an Address Book file by default.

Third party solutions:

1. You could get Paul Berkowitz's Export-Import Entourage scripts
(shareware) at MacScripter.net It will do the Export by selection, category,
etc. etc.

AddressBookToCSV

<http://homepage.mac.com/kenferry/software.html>

AddressBookToCSV is a one trick pony whose purpose in (artificial) life is
to export contacts from the Mac OS X Address Book. That form is called CSV,
a comma separated value format.

--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
One of the top five MS Entourage resources listed on the Entourage Blog.
<http://blogs.msdn.com/entourage/>