Preserving Categories when exporting contact info

[jeanette]

I'm trying to export all my contact information and still retain
Categories designations. When I export contacts from Entourage (Office
10.1.4 on Mac OSX) and open the file in Excel there isn't a column for
"category" so I lose all the category info. How can I preserve
Categories information?

I tried sorting contacts by Categories first (to manually assign them
in a column later), but they don't stay in any particular order when
exported.
Please help!

 

[Michel Bintener]

That's a known limitation in Entourage. Read Barry Wainwright's blog entry
"Saving your categories for a workaround:

<http://homepage.mac.com/barryw/weblog/files/category-5.html>

I'm trying to export all my contact information and still retain
Categories designations. When I export contacts from Entourage (Office
10.1.4 on Mac OSX) and open the file in Excel there isn't a column for
"category" so I lose all the category info. How can I preserve
Categories information?

I tried sorting contacts by Categories first (to manually assign them
in a column later), but they don't stay in any particular order when
exported.
Please help!

--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:Mac (Entourage & Word)

***Always reply to the newsgroup.***

 

[Mickey Stevens]

That article only seems to address events, not contacts. Check out Paul
Berkowitz's "Export-Import Entourage" script package.
http://www.scriptbuilders.net/search.php?search_str=Export-Import+Entourage

 

[Michel Bintener]

Sorry, my bad. Thanks for pointing the OP in the right direction; I should
have read Barry's blog before posting the link.

That article only seems to address events, not contacts. Check out Paul
Berkowitz's "Export-Import Entourage" script package.
http://www.scriptbuilders.net/search.php?search_str=Export-Import+Entourage

--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:Mac (Entourage & Word)

***Always reply to the newsgroup.***