Maybe something with an Excel spreadsheet...? On or near 8/16/04 10:12 PM, Janice F. Jorgensen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:
> I am comparing..addresses, phone numbers, home and business... And so I was > trying to sync them.... And then not get into this again. I have over 480 in > the address book.... > > I exported both..and made the headings the same..so I could compare like > ones...phones, mobiles...etc > The ideas are good..and will help me get going.... > > Thanks > Janice > > > Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> On or near 8/16/04 12:33 PM, Janice F. Jorgensen at >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: >> >>> I want to compare my old outlook express address book in windows with my >>> entourage x address book. Does anyone have any suggestions how to do >>> this..easily.? >>> >> What would you compare? Just e-mail addresses? Or would you want to match up >> multiple fields? The first is fairly easy; the latter can be exceedingly >> complex. >> >> If I wanted simply to find out, for instance, what e-mail addresses were in >> OE that were not in Entourage, I'd export from both to text files, then edit >> those files down to just one e-mail address per line, sort them, and then >> use BBEdit to do a "differences" on them. Or in OS X you could use Terminal >> and the Unix "diff" utility (type "man differences" in Terminal for a sparse >> manual about it). You can probably download a demo of BBEdit or its lite >> companion, Text Wrangler, to do the comparison if you don't own either. >> > > Janice F. Jorgensen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 150 River Drive > Hadley, Massachusetts 01035 > 413-585-014 -- 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/>
