Exporting Selected Contacts

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brad

How can I export SELECTED contacts from Entourage? It keeps exporting
ALL my contacts.
 
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Barry Wainwright [MVP]

How can I export SELECTED contacts from Entourage? It keeps exporting
ALL my contacts.
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You can export by category, so you could assign those contacts a temporary
category to export them (all Entourage items can have more than one
category, so you needn't remove existing categories to use this method)
 
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Mickey Stevens

You can export by category, so you could assign those contacts a temporary
category to export them (all Entourage items can have more than one
category, so you needn't remove existing categories to use this method)
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Or, if you are content with individual vCards for each contact, you can just
drag contacts directly from Entourage to the Desktop.
 
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Barry Wainwright [MVP]

How can I export SELECTED contacts from Entourage? It keeps exporting
ALL my contacts.
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Or, use this script to export names & email addresses of selected contacts
to an excel spreadsheet

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
try
set theSelection to selection
if class of item 1 of theSelection ‚ contact then error -128
on error
display dialog "Please select one or more contacts before running
this script" buttons {"Abort"} default button 1
return
end try
set exportList to {{"First Name", "Last Name", "Default Email Address"}}
repeat with anItem in theSelection
tell anItem
copy {first name, last name, contents of default email address}
to end of exportList
end tell
end repeat
end tell

tell application "Microsoft Excel"
activate
make new workbook
set name of active sheet to "Exported Contacts"
set theRange to get resize range "A1" row size (count exportList) column
size (count item 1 of exportList)
set value of theRange to exportList
set the view of window 1 to normal view
set the display page breaks of the active sheet to false
autofit theRange
autoformat theRange format range autoformat classic 3
end tell
 
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