Sven said in his original post that he created these files with Excel. Apparently, something he is doing there is not as he thinks. He said:
> I want to import emailaddresses I gathered from relevant YahooGroups to our > organisation. I copy pasted them in an Excell sheet, now want to import them > in EntX Contacts. in Excell, I do a save as tab delimited text file. Excel (one "l") will export each row of a table as a "record" ending with Return, and will put commas or tabs (depending on which you choose) between the data from each cell in the row. Sven, sounds to me like you did not format the data in Excel properly before exporting it. -- Microsoft MVP for Entourage/OE/Word (MVPs are volunteers) Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Entourage FAQ site: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> AppleScripts for Outlook Express and Entourage: <http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/Scripts/> Entourage Help Pages: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> > From: Paul Berkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 07:31:49 -0700 > To: Entourage Mac Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Why doesn't Import tab-koma delimeted email adress list work? > >>> I would try opening those files >>> with TextEdit, use Format->Make Plain Text (if it shows in the menu; if not, >>> it will say "Make rich text," which you don't want), and using Save As to >>> save the file with a .txt extension. >> >> Ok, I understand...but all files with .txt are in plaint text. >> I don't see any "," or " " (=tab) in them...just words, one under the >> other. Is that normal ? > > No, those are return-delimited files with no tab or or comma delimiters. >> >>> Then, try opening the result in >>> Entourage. >> >> That's File/Import ... Don't think I do anything wrong. > > Where are these files coming from? Although comma-delimited files are in > fact text, some applications always use the extension ".csv" for them. On > Windows, that means "comma separated value" file. Windows uses ",txt" for > tab-delimited , and ".csv" for tab-delimited. Excel on both Windows and Mac > does the same. > > What has led you to believe that these are comma-delimited files? -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
