There's a way...a script. Go to Applescriptcentral.com and look for "Export
Address Groups", which I wrote. Companion script, "Import Address Groups,"
will restore a group from the exported text file.
However, there is an even easier way. Open an outgoing message or a Note.
Then open the Address Book. Find a group, and drag the group icon to the
text area of the message or note: BINGO!
On or near 6/29/01 5:41 PM, Laurie A Duncan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:
> I am getting frustrated.
>
> I have a rather lengthy list of addresses in a group that I use for my
> fianc�e's band mailing list. I cannot seem to easily copy that entire list
> of addresses into a text file or Excel column without using multiple tedious
> steps to accomplish it. Apparently I cannot simply open the Group, Select
> All, and copy the list and paste it somewhere else. In order to do it I
> have to make sure every address in the group has a separate address book
> entry and then make sure that each one has the same category assigned to it
> and then filter to just that category, select all, copy and paste into
> Excel. Except then every addresses pastes into one cell, instead of all down
> the column, so I have to then save the Excel sheet as a CSV (which takes
> several tries to get it to believe that I really do want to save it as a
> CSV! And then I have to reopen it in Excel, and then I finally have a
> useable column of all the addresses.
>
> Problem with that tedious trick is that if I happen to have forgotten to
> assign a category to an address when I added it to the address book as a
> separate entry, then I am missing it, and I know I am missing some now
> because I have "X" number of addresses in the Group, and only "Y" number of
> addresses that have that category, and it would take me way too long to open
> each address from the group window and figure out which ones are missing!
>
> The reason I need to do all of this to begin with is that I'm going to start
> running this list off a web based mailing list manager, instead of through
> E'rage from now on, but I need a list of addresses that I can paste in as
> one single column with one address per line.
>
> There has got to be an easier way...
>
> Anyone?
>
>
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